Our installaton ‘Entrelac’ is featured on Wallpaper HERE.
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Entrelac featured in Wallpaper
Posted on September 23rd, 2016 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: Installations + Exhibitions, Press
INTERVIEW BY FUMINORI NOUSAKU
Posted on September 17th, 2016 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: Press
Fuminori Nousaku interviews Nader about the future of “windows” for the Window Research Institute. Full interview HERE.
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URBAN TORONTO’S PHOTO OF THE DAY
Posted on August 17th, 2016 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: _Daniels Building, construction, Press
Jasonzed’s aerial photo of One Spadina is Urban Toronto’s Photo of the Day. See his other shots of DFALD here.
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DWELL COVER STORY: ROCK CREEK HOUSE
Posted on August 2nd, 2016 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: _Rock Creek House, Press
“At first appearance, with its modest windows and great expanse of brick, a renovated four-story home dating to the 1920’s in the Rock Creek neighborhood of Washington, D.C., looks conservative and polite… But in the rear, the house opens up […] The dazzling light from the exposed southern side of the house is the visual, sensual, ever-changing anchor. When the residence is lit from within, the transparent southern facade reveals the function of every room, each of which has its own singe or double aperture.”
More about the Rock Creek House HERE or pick up a copy to see the full story at one of these retailers.
Photos by John Horner. Millwork in collaboration with C.W. Keller + Associates.
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Person of Interest: Nader Tehrani
Posted on August 1st, 2016 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: Academic, Press
Nader is interviewed by Stephen Hopkins in the Metropolitan Society’s first issue of Persons of Interest. They discuss NADAAA’s approach to designing spaces for education, the “debundling” of systems, the power of the mock-up, and crowdfunding. Order your copy here.
“What we are trying to create, whether through the digital process or not, is a situation where a certain ethic of control comes into being by gaining an insight about smart ways of using materials, effective ways of assembling them, and a more optimal way of impacting the use of labor on site. This control that you regain over the built artifact is not control for power’s sake, and nor is it a way of gaining efficiency, optimization, or intelligence per se, but it is a way of thinking of the designed environment as part of a dialogue between cultural, economic and social priorities all at once.”
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Nader writes for first AIA SPP Journal
Posted on June 2nd, 2016 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: Press
For this inaugural issue of the AIA Small Practice Practitioners Journal: Pleasure, Nader writes about his own history of practice and the intellectual project that continues to evolve in and out of NADAAA. “Launched as small endeavors under the banner of Office dA some thirty years ago, and now serving as the very platforms from which NADAAA undertakes explorations, this speculative ethic has helped to bind the research through the years, and in turn, connect the small scale experiment with the potential of large scale results.”
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Nader writes editorial critique for The Plan
Posted on May 31st, 2016 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: Press
In A Disaggregated Manifesto, an editorial critique for The Plan, Nader discusses the fragmentation of practice, as a result of an expanded domain and ever-growing breadth of specialized consultants. The editorial is composed as a series of reflections, notes and projections, an index, comprising a broader research, “to reconstitute the political agency of the architect by re-engaging the means and methods of processes – which are ever expanding by the day – if only to reconnect with the very protocols of making that provide for the instrumentality of the designer’s intellectual craft.”
“…the detail can be seen as omnipresent, pervasive and malleable enough to play many roles – indeed a critical precondition for the spatial and formal potentials of an architecture yet to be determined.”
Find the article here as PDF.
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KENDALL SQUARE INNOVATION DISTRICT MOVES FORWARD
Posted on May 25th, 2016 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: _MIT Site 4, Press
NADAAA (Design Architect) and Perkins+Will (Architect of Record) are collaborating on the design and development of a significant gateway project for MIT on East Campus at Kendall Square, pending the ongoing approval process of the City of Cambridge. The project is part of a multi-building institutional and commercial development that will revitalize existing buildings on Main Street with new high rises and a new open space to the south. The diverse program typologies and the urban influences from adjacent developments and the existing fabric have largely factored into the organizational framework and design concept. The project is a combination of renovated buildings at the podium and new construction in a tower. The program will include approximately 450 graduate student apartments in a mix of one-bedroom, two-bedroom, and efficiency units. The podium of the project is a combination of existing buildings and new construction. The entire ground plane of the podium will be for retail use. The upper levels of the podium for the new construction scope will include a new Child Care center with an elevated playground, and the Social Commons for the residents of the apartment tower with an outdoor terrace. The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center will be in the upper levels of the existing buildings, along with additional space for future tenants.
More information on the project is also available here.
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CCA show on Azure
Posted on May 24th, 2016 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: Events, Press
Azure reviews ‘Archaeology of the Digital’ which includes Office dA’s Witte Arts Center. More on Witte here.
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