Foreign Office Architects (FOA)

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Foreign Office Architects (FOA) was a London-based architecture practice founded by Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera-Polo in 1992. The firm gained international recognition for its innovative approach to surface-based design, most notably with the Yokohama International Passenger Terminal (2002). FOA's theoretical framework drew from evolutionary biology, classifying their architectural works through a phylogenetic tree structure. The practice dissolved in 2011 when Moussavi and Zaera-Polo separated professionally.