Nader Tehrani (born 1963 in London) is an

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designer and educator. In 2011 in partnership with Katherine Faulkner, Tehrani founded NADAAA, a practice dedicated to the advancement of design innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and an intensive dialogue with the construction industry. The two were later joined by partner Arthur Chang. Tehrani is the former Dean of the

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's Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture. Previously he was a professor of architecture at the

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, where he served as Head of the Department from 2010 to 2014,

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. He previously founded Office dA in 1986 with Rodolphe el-Khoury, later being joined by

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in 1991. Tehrani has taught at the

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where he served as the Thomas W. Ventulett III Distinguished Chair in Architectural Design, and

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as the Frank O. Gehry International Visiting Chair at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design. Tehrani was the 2017/2018 William A. Bernoudy Architect in Residence at the American Academy in Rome. Tehrani is the 2019 Inaugural Paul Helmle Fellow at the California State Polytechnic University. Tehrani is the recipient of the 2020

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Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize.

Early life and education

He was raised in Pakistan, South Africa, Iran, and the United States. Tehrani received a B.F.A. and a B. Arch from the

in 1985 and 1986 respectively. He continued his studies at the

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, where he attended the Post-Graduate program in History and Theory and in the European Honors program in Rome. Upon his return to United States, Tehrani received an M.A.U.D from the

in 1991.

Work

* Adams Street Branch Library, Boston, MA (2020) * SAT_5304_copy

MIT Site 4, Boston, MA (2020) *Villa Varoise, South of France (2019) * RISD North Hall

North Hall,

, Providence, RI (2019) * East_Side_of_1_Spadina_Crescent

, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, Toronto, Canada (2018) *

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, Boston, MA (2017) *Rock Creek House, Washington DC (2016) *Tanderrum Bridge, Melbourne, Australia (2016) *

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, Melbourne School of Design, Melbourne, Australia (2014) *Aesop Stores: Hong Kong, Soho New York, San Francisco (2013) *Raemian Model Home Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (2012) *Newton House, Newton, MA (2011) *Hinman Research Building,

, Atlanta, GA (2011) *Banq, Boston, MA (2008) *Macallen Building, Boston, MA (2007) * Helios House, Los Angeles (2007) *Fleet Library,

, Providence, RI (2006) *House in New England, Massachusetts (2003) *Tongxian Gatehouse, Beijing, China (2003) *Upper Crust, Charles Street, Boston, MA (2001) *Mantra, Boston, MA (2001) *Back Bay Residence, Boston, MA (2001) *

Offices, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2000) *Inter-faith Spiritual Center,

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, Boston, MA(1998)

Recognition

Nader Tehrani was selected as the recipient of the 2020 Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize, an award which is given "to an architect of any nationality who has made a significant contribution to architecture as an art." Tehrani's work has been recognized with notable awards, including eighteen Progressive Architecture Awards, four 2018 American Architecture Awards, four 2017 Chicago Athenaeum Awards, a 2019 AIA Cote Top Ten Award, a finalist for the 2017 Moriyama RAIC International Prize, and a nominee for the 2017 Marcus Prize for Architecture. Other honors include: a 2014 Holcim Foundation Sustainability Award, the 2012

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Hobson Award, the 2007 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture, the 2007

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, USA Target Fellows AD award, the 2002

Architecture Award, and the 2002

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. Over the past seven years, NADAAA has consistently ranked as a top design firm in Architect Magazine's Top 50 U.S. Firms List, ranking as First three of those years.

Exhibitions

Tehrani's research and installations have been exhibited in venues such as the

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in New York, the

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and at the

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. His work is also part of the permanent collection of the

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in Dallas and the

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in Montreal.

Lectures

Tehrani has lectured widely at institutions including the

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in New York, Harvard University,

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and the

. Tehrani has participated in many symposia including the Monterey Design Conference (2009), the Buell Center "Contemporary Architecture and its Consequences" at

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(2009), and the

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"Beyond the Harvard Box" (2006).

Articles

He has authored several articles, including "Aggregation" and "Difficult Synthesis" in ''Material Design: Informing Architecture through Materiality'' by Thomas Schroepfer. He also authored "Versioning: Connubial Reciprocities of Surface and Space" in ''

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''. He wrote the introduction to ''The Work of Machado & Silvetti'', 2018. He wrote the foreword to ''Victor Lundy: Artist Architect'', 2017. He wrote the preface to ''Patkau Architects'', 2017. His 'Tectonic Grain' lecture was published in Manifesto, 2017. He wrote "The Timeless Anachronism of Type" for Obra Architects Logic, 2016 and "Control, Realized" for The Architecture of WOJR. He contributed 'The Architectural Grain' to This Building Likes Me, 2016. In 2016 for ''The Plan'' he wrote "A Disaggregated Manifesto: Thoughts on the Architectural Medium and its Realm of Instrumentality". His work has also 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.

Publications

* Rodolphe el-Khoury and Oscar Riera Ojeda. ''Office dA.'' Gloucester, Massachusetts: Rockport Publishers, 2000. * Elizabeth Bennett de Stefani. ''Office dA: Mónica Ponce de León and Nader Tehrani''. Santiago, Chile: ARQ ediciones, 2005. *

Greg Lynn Greg Lynn (born 1964) is an American architect, founder and owner of the Greg Lynn FORM office, a Full Professor at the Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and a professor at the UCLA School of the Arts and Archite ...

(ed.).
Office dA: Mónica Ponce de León, Nader Tehrani and Greg Lynn discuss Witte Arts Center.
' Montreal:

, 2017.

References

External links

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2020 Architecture Award WinnersNader Tehrani

Finding aid for Office dA project records

The Greg Lynn Show, episode 8: Nader Tehrani

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