Nader Tehrani

Nader Tehrani is Principal and Founder of NADAAA, a practice dedicated to the advancement of design innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and an intensive dialogue with the construction industry. He also is a Professor and Head of the Department of Architecture at MIT SA+P.^[1][2]

Tehrani received a B.F.A. and a B. Arch from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1985 and 1986 respectively, and continued on to the Harvard Graduate School of Design where he received his M.A.U.D in 1991. Tehrani has also taught at Harvard Graduate School of Design, Rhode Island School of Design, Northeastern University, Georgia Institute of Technology where he served as the Thomas W. Ventulett III Distinguished Chair in Architectural Design, and Otis College of Art and Design where he served as a Donghia Designer-in-Residence.

Previously Tehrani was a Principal and Founder of Office dA (1986-2011), where he designed award-winning projects such as Tongxian Art Gatehouse in Beijing, Fleet Library at RISD, the LEED-certified Helios House in Los Angeles, the Multi-faith Spiritual Center at Northeastern University, Banq restaurant and the LEED-Gold certified Macallen Building in Boston. Examining spaces of pedagogy, Tehrani recently completed the renovation of the Hinman Building at Georgia Institute of Technology, and is currently redesigning schools of architecture at the University of Melbourne and the University of Toronto.

Tehrani’s work has been recognized with notable awards, including the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture (2007), the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture (2002), and thirteen Progressive Architecture Awards. He has also been honored with the United States Artists Fellowship in Architecture and Design (2007) and the Architectural League of New York's Young Architects Award (1997).

Tehrani's research and installations have been exhibited in venues such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, and the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas. He has authored several articles including 'Aggregation' and 'Difficult Synthesis' in Material Design: Informing Architecture through Materiality by Thomas Schropfer and 'Versioning: Connubial Reciprocities of Surface and Space' in Architectural Design. And his work has been internationally reviewed and published-- in periodicals such as Architect, Architectural Record, Icon, Wallpaper, Monitor, The Plan, Abitare, Mark, Frame, I.D., Contract, Archiworld, the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times, among others.

Tehrani has participated in lectures, symposia, and conferences at architecture and design institutions all over the world, including the Princeton University School of Architecture, the Buell Center at Columbia University, and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. He has participated as the Keynote Speaker at several events such as CAADRIA 2010 in Hong Kong, the 2009 AICC Monterey Design Conference, and the Datum KL: 2008 Conference in Kuala Lumpur. Tehrani has also served as a juror for many design competitions and awards, such as the North American Holcim Awards, the Canadian Governor General’s Medals in Architecture, and the New Multi-functional Administration Cities in the Republic of Korea competition, for which he was jury chair.

References

1. ^ http://architecture.mit.edu/people-details.php?type=faculty&id=382&detail=Profile
2. ^ http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/conversation-nader-tehrani.html

External links

• NADAAA.com