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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The Metropolitan Museum of Art is currently undertaking the renovation of one-quarter of its gallery system. This fall, The Met has invited the three architects leading these distinct projects to participate in MetSpeaks: Designing Tomorrow’s Met, a three-part series of onstage conversations with Met curators.
On November 17, Nader Tehrani, lead architect for the renovation of the galleries for Ancient Near Eastern and Cypriot Art will present the vision for the ANEC project and speak with Kim Benzel, Curator in Charge of Ancient Near Eastern Art, and Seán Hemingway, John A. and Carole O. Moran Curator in Charge of Greek and Roman Art.
The event will take place in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium and will begin at 6pm. Registration is required, more HERE.
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Both the Adams Street Branch Library and MIT Site 4 are nominated for the 2022 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP).
“The works MCHAP celebrates inspire, educate, and challenge their users, the international design community, and the wider public. With sensitivity and intelligence, these projects achieve a formal, material, social, and environmental synergy. They realize opportunities for architecture— understood through both what architecture is, as a physical structure, and what it does, in the experiences and connections it creates.”
See all the nominated projects HERE.
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On Thursday, October 20th, at 6pm Nader will present My House is Better than Your House, followed by a conversation with Clark Thenhaus, principal of Endemic Architecture and associate professor of architecture at San Francisco’s CCA. The event is free and open to the public with registration. More details and registration HERE.
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Nader will join IIT’s fall lecture series with a talk and book event for MY HOUSE IS BETTER THAN YOUR HOUSE. The lecture is free and open to the public, beginning at 5pm this Wednesday, October 12th in Crown Hall. More HERE.
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Nader will give a special presentation entitled A Civic Gateway: Revisioning the Otis House next Friday morning at Historic New England’s Summit 2022. Join us to “explore the theory and conceptual approach to revitalizing the oldest home in Boston’s West End as a center for community activity and a gateway to Historic New England.” More info and registration can be found HERE.
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We recently celebrated the winners of this year’s National Design Awards at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. Big congratulations to CW&T, Nader Tehrani, Emily Adams Bode, KDI, Giorgia Lupi, WEDEW, Rural Studio, Willy Chavarria, and Felecia Davis!
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Curbed’s Diana Budds asks Nader about his first job in New York, his favorite places in the city, what he would change about the field of architecture, and what to do in a creative rut. Check out Nader’s 21 Questions HERE.
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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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Fred Bernstein writes for Architectural Record this month on widespread changes to architecture schools’ curricula that are attempting to right the ship in terms of architecture’s role in global warming. Bernstein interviews several deans, chairs, and professors about ways their schools are pushing students to frame their work around climate change. Nader shares that “For too long, we’ve been teaching students how to integrate mechanical systems into buildings, when we should be looking at how to create building envelopes that reduce reliance on those systems.”
Read on for how schools like the Daniels Faculty at the University of Toronto are approaching their design projects with net zero as a primary constraint HERE.
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