Nader lectures at the University of Tehran School of Architecture. Nader discusses the emphasis on the ‘conceptual’ aspects of architecture: that which motivates it as a critical practice and that which advances it intellectually, material agency, teaching architecture, and NADAAA projects.
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Nader Tehrani will be a speaker On November 30, 2011 for Integrated Vision: Urban Planning . He will talk about the challenges involved in designing and transforming the city. Read more about the program here.
The economic alibis for the “Smart City” have been well-argued and even become a reality in certain global arenas. The question remains what the role of smart design is in a new context where the radical advent of specialization, globalization and media explosion has made it such that the disciplines that once maintained strict boundaries within architecture, urban design, industrial design and their allied fields can no longer claim such clear delineation; if this is perceived as a liability, architects have also potentially gained an even more strategic position in collaborative platforms that need to synthesize a complex array of information, disciplines and techniques. The future of smart cities relies on the ability to invest in formal, spatial and material speculations that have the potential to innovate. It relies in smart design.
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On November 8 and 9 the symposium MIT+IE “Considering Cities II” will take place at IE. Three Professors from MIT, Nader Tehrani, Yung Ho Chang and Alexander D’Hooghe will present their view of the present and future of the contemporary city in a series of short presentations which will be followed by an open discussion between the speakers, the IE Professors Martha Thorne, Javier Quintana, Jose María Churtichaga and Ricard Frigola, as well as the rest of the audience.
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Nader Tehrani, member of the Holcim Awards jury for North America, presents “Next Generation” prizes at the Holcim Awards 2011 North America presentation ceremony in Washington, DC on October 20, 2011.
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See Sir Peter Cook give a lecture at the AA called Stuff as Rhetoric that includes Office dA work.
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