“There is a clarity of intention and care in execution that one does not typically see in buildings of this scale, along with an extremely high level of technical skill.” Read more of the jury comments HERE.
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“The morphological particularities of the body offer a productive clue via their engagement with architecture, if only that the interface between the human and its environment may begin with the body as a system of parts: the torso, limbs, digits or head all establish a special relationship with the built environment. With the hand as maybe one of the most dexterous instruments of intelligence, it is also the most prone to architectural engagement, not only in the tactility of surfaces around us, but in the mechanical protocols of hardware, instruments, and vessels that mediate between the human and its environment: doorknobs, pulls, flatware, cups, and many industrial design artifacts are the first registration of such encounters.”
Jonathon Anderson and Lois Weinthal’s new book Digital Fabrication in Interior Design: Body, Object, Enclosure has been released! The book includes an essay entitled “The Figure in Translation” by Nader Tehrani.
Available for order HERE.
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Nader will give his Timely Anachronisms lecture, in person(!) on Wednesay January 26th at 6:30pm in Meyerson Hall’s Plaza Gallery at 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia.
Register HERE.
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“Among the many tendencies that characterize design thinking, one stands out from a material perspective: in identifying a single medium through which to work, the architect is able to force invention from within a genre, and in doing so, to radicalize its ability to transform, evolve, and innovate. There is a seductive allure to the idea that one might entirely conceive of a project in cross-laminated timber”
Jennifer Bonner and Hanif Kara’s new book Blank: Speculations on CLT has been released and includes an essay entitled “Blank Shots: Monolithic Desires and Laminar Inevitabilities” by Nader Tehrani.
Purchase Blank HERE.
More on Bonner and Kara’s mass timber research HERE.
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Streamed Live Today: Nader Tehrani and Yaser Mousapour in Farsi and English, watch HERE.
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“After eleven years of academic leadership—four at MIT and seven at Cooper Union, I remain deeply committed to teaching and the building of institutions,” said Tehrani. “At the same time, this transition allows me to genuinely immerse myself back into practice over the coming decade; NADAAA has served as a critical mechanism for me to balance out what I do between academic speculation and the practicalities of everyday practice, and this is a time to re-channel those efforts.”
Read on HERE.
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WITH AN INCREASED FOCUS ON NADAAA
MIT Site 4 has won an AIA New York Honor Award and the Adams Street Branch Library has won an AIA New York Merit Award.
See the jury and check out all the winning projects on the Center for Architecture’s website HERE.
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Exciting news! NADAAA has been chosen to create welcoming public spaces in Northwest Arkansas as part of the Northwest Arkansas Design Excellence program supported by the Walton Family Foundation.
See the full list of program participants HERE.
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This Thursday, January 6th at 4:00 PM EST Nader and Arthur will be joined by Monograph’s George Valdes and Chris Morgan for a “fireside chat”. Register for the online talk HERE!
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