This summer Nader served on the Aga Khan architecture awards jury alongside Nada Al Hassan, Kazi Khaleed Ashraf, Amale Andraos, Francis Kéré, Sibel Bozdoǧan, Kader Attia, Lina Ghotmeh, and Anne Lacaton. The final winners, selected for making a difference in the “lives of people and local communites”, were announced today. Congratulations to the six winning projects and teams!
Read more about the winning works from AKDN HERE, from World Architecture HERE, ArchDaily HERE, and CNN HERE.
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Porta per Venezi Piazzale Roma, Venice, Italy, (Perspectives) [1990]; Machado, Rodolfo (Buenos Aires, 1942), Silvetti, Jorge (Buenos Aires, 1942); Project Coordinator Tehrani, Nader; Project Team Becker, Daniel and Gutierrez, Gerard and Ponce de Leon, Monica.
The Harvard University Graduate School of Design’s Loeb Library has acquired the Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti Collection which will be on display until October 7th in the Drucker Design Gallery in honor of Jorge Silvetti’s retirement from the GSD. The collection includes hundreds of pieces of material that demonstrate the advancement of the Machado Silvetti practice including drawings and models spanning the last five decades.
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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!
NADAAA is currently seeking an Architect with 5-10 years of experience to join its architectural team in the design of progressive projects ranging from gallery installations to large institutional buildings.
Applicants must have the following qualifications to be considered for the position:
• Bachelor of Architecture degree or a Master of Architecture degree • At least 5-10 years of professional experience • Experience with construction documents and high-level presentation production. • Computer expertise in Revit, AutoCAD, and Rhino3d
Other position qualifications include:
Strong design and graphic skills
Knowledge of space programming, contract documents (including detailing, specifications, production management, design production), and contract administration
Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills with various levels of individuals including clients, consultants, and architects
Experience as team leader and project manager
Ability to juggle multiple tasks, collaborate on large teams and work well under deadlines
Start date: ASAP
Please submit qualified resumes and portfolios in PDF format under 20 MB to nada@nadaaa.com. Please mention your years of experience in the email’s subject line. Please no phone calls or hard copy portfolios.
NADAAA is currently seeking two full-time Designers to join our architectural team in the design of progressive projects ranging from gallery installations to large institutional and commercial buildings.
We are looking for an Architectural Designer with 3-5 years of experience, a Bachelor of Architecture degree or a Master of Architecture degree, and experience with BIM management, AutoCAD, and Rhino3d.
We are also looking for a Junior Designer with a Bachelor of Architecture degree or a Master of Architecture degree.
Start date: ASAP
Please submit qualified cover letters, resumes, and portfolios in PDF format under 20 MB to nada@nadaaa.com. Please no phone calls or hard copy portfolios.
The new book by Stella Betts and David Leven of LevenBetts is reviewed by Nader for Architectural Record.
“This book is a testament to how the ethic of iteration in architecture evolves into discipline […] with 13 themes and houses, each replete with wider cultural contexts that include literature, art, architectural precedents, and film. Open House, Campsite, Doors and Windows, Steps and Stairs, Corridors, Courtyards, Curtains, Plumbing, House Plants, Plans, Structures, Thick and Thin, Home—when listed like this, they appear as nothing more than benign architectural elements. But in the authors’ minds, each is conceptualized as an indispensable element of a mis-en-scène that anticipates the events that invariably get acted out, with each one serving as another protagonist onstage.”
NADAAA is happy to announce that ‘My House is Better than Your House’ has been released by ORO Editions. A special thanks goes to all who helped make this book happen!
‘The house is commonly used as a vehicle to get at larger architectural debates. Such is the case in this book, with a dialogue between Nader Tehrani and Preston Scott Cohen whose collaboration in academia has often resulted in two very different approaches to pedagogy. In this discussion, Tehrani draws from central themes within Cohen’s pedagogy to design a house as a response to the preoccupations that drive many of these debates. Adopting Villa Varoise as the main protagonist, the book draws on many architectures to situate the predicaments behind geometry, typology, and the architectural anomaly, among other things, as productive instruments for a broader cultural discussion on architecture.’
Purchase your copy HERE. For a limited time, the book is available at 20% off HERE.
Rendering by NADAAA, courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
NADAAA is pleased to announce our work with The Metropolitan Museum of Art to redesign their Ancient Near East and Cypriot galleries. NADAAA is working in collaboration with Moody Nolan on the $40 million, 15,000 square foot project. Our team is working closely with Museum construction leadership and curators Kim Benzel and Seán Hemingway to develop the design.
“At The Met, architecture serves as the cultural armature for the display of art. Nader Tehrani and NADAAA’s contemporary approach to materials such as clay and metal—which are foundational to the world views of both ancient West Asia and Cyprus—and their partnership with Moody Nolan, a firm renowned for their work with peer institutions and marginalized communities, make this team ideally suited for this complex project.”
-Jhaelen Hernandez-Eli, Head of Construction at The Met
“It’s an honor to be selected for this project, which will address the need for more diverse narratives in the displays of art from the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean regions. In bringing disparate layers of the Museum’s architectural history into dialogue, the proposed design hopes to bring the formal, spatial, and material properties of these galleries into alignment with The Museum’s mission. By working in collaboration with The Met’s curatorial and construction teams, we’ll be able to recondition these spaces while facilitating the connection between cultures, civilizations, and geographies to tell a whole new story.”
