This Friday, The American Academy of Arts and Letters is celebrating the opening of an exhibition of works by new members in Architecture and Visual Arts, including Nader Tehrani, recipient of the Academy’s 2020 Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize. Objects in the show include paintings, works on paper, photographs, architectural models, sculpture, and video. More info and registration HERE.
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NADAAA will be joined by BKSK, bnim, fx collaborative, Pelli Clark & Partners, Steven Holl Architects, WJE, and Woods Bagot to present our teams’ terra cotta prototypes for this year’s Architectural Ceramic Assemblies Workshop in Buffalo, NY. The prototypes have been developed over the last ten months with support from Boston Valley Terra Cotta, Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture, and the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning. The presentation of the prototypes will begin at 1:00 pm EDT on August 18th and will be followed by a closing keynote address by Nader at 5:00 pm EDT. Register HERE to join virtually!
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Musical performance, lecture, and panel discussion 6:30 pm on April 6, 2022 | The Cooper Union Great Hall, Foundation Building, E 7th St, New York, NY 10003
“Lyrical Urbanism: The Taipei Music Center celebrates and communicates the vibrant energy and intensity of the recently completed Taipei Music Center that was designed by architects and Cooper alumni Jesse Reiser AR’81 and Nanako Umemoto AR’83 of Reiser+Umemoto, RUR Architecture. The exhibition introduces the complex’s iconic architecture to an American audience through large-scale photographs, videos, music, and architectural models and drawings. Lyrical Urbanism illustrates the many ways the Music Center is currently inhabited—from informal daytime outdoor markets to organized evening-time music festivals—and how it has become an important urban district where Taiwanese music and culture is cultivated, celebrated, and projected toward a global audience.”
Free and Open to the Public. More information HERE.
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Lyrical Urbanism: The Taipei Music Center
La Biennale Architettura 2021 will close on November 22nd. Curator Hashim Sarkis is leading closing meetings this week with a series of panels on Saturday morning at the Teatro Piccolo Arsenale including a panel with Nader. Saturday’s panels will focus on the question: How is architectural education responding to the many challenges that a rapidly changing world is putting in front of us?
For more info and to join the Live Stream click HERE.
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Barry Sampson was an integral part of the University of Toronto’s Daniels Faculty and of the design process for the new Daniels Building. Last night Nader joined Dean Juan Du, Brigitte Shim, and others from the Daniels Faculty to honor Barry.
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Check out this fall’s Cooper Union lecture series which has a focus on exploring pluriversality HERE.
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Last night Pratt’s GAUD hosted an informal Pratt Parallels entitled From House to Icon on Governor’s Island. The discussion was moderated by David Erdman and Deborah Mesa and compared and contrasted Marcelo Spina’s new book Mute Icons with Nader’s new book My House is Better Than Your House.
Watch the talk HERE.
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CCA’s Hubbell Street Galleries in San Francisco is hosting Drawing Codes with the inclusion of ‘The Synthetic Code’ by NADAAA’s Nader Tehrani and Matthew Waxman. Drawing Codes explores “emerging technologies of design and production that have opened up new ways to engage with traditional practices of architectural drawing”. While the exhibit is only open to CCA students, staff, and faculty with proof of vaccination, on September 29th at 5pm the CCA is hosting a free public virtual closing lecture. Learn more HERE.
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NADAAA recently had the privilege of collaborating with VLA Dance and their Director & Choreographer Victoria Awkward on the set design for their latest work ‘In The Space Between’. Through contemporary dance, the work “challenges audience members to explore uncomfortable spaces between”. Using our workshop NADLAB we were able to both fabricate and install the set pieces ourselves for the dance company at Boston Center for the Arts.
– Kathryn Boland, Dance Informa
Photos Courtesy of VLA DANCE
Lighting by Elmer Martinez
Photos by Melissa Blackall
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