Dezeen’s international awards program has selected NADAAA as a candidate for Architect of the Year! See the other candidate firms HERE.
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NADAAA up for Architecture Studio of the Year
Posted on August 14th, 2020 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: Awards
Cooper’s End of Year Show highlighted in FRAME
Posted on August 8th, 2020 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: The Cooper Union
FRAME’s Peter Maxwell writes on how this year’s design schools’ graduation shows have reinvented the digital format. One of Maxwell’s key examples of how institutions are creating ambitious digital exhibitions is The Cooper Union’s EOYS: “Other schools have gone one step further, radically rethinking the modes of production of the show itself. In New York, The Cooper Union’s end-of-year show, which includes work spanning all five years of undergraduate design studios, is being displayed in a surrealized version of the historical building in which the school’s classes, studio spaces, and exhibitions are (in better times) held.”
Read on HERE.
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New Territorialities – Nader on Transfer
Posted on August 4th, 2020 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: Press
In Nader’s conversation with TRANSFER editor Isabel Concheiro a few weeks ago they discussed the potential effects of COVID-19 on globalization, revolution, public space, housing inequalities, sustainability, and our evolving architectural discourse.
“to some degree, this may require a paradigm shift in the discipline: the centrality of the human would need to be displaced with the environment at large as its center, including the various species and flora that it sustains. And it poses a very difficult existential question: If humans have the intellectual power to conceptualize a model of sustainability for the globe that was to be to the detriment of human life, would they elect to support it? Could they support a model that prioritizes a center outside of the self?”
Read on HERE.
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LAST CHANCE TO VOTE FOR VILLA VAROISE + RISD NORTH HALL
Posted on July 30th, 2020 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: _RISD NORTH HALL, _Villa Varoise, Awards
Voting ends tomorrow in the 8th Annual Architizer A+ Popular Choice Awards. Help Villa Varoise and RISD North Hall win by clicking on the below links and placing your vote!
Villa Varoise for Architecture + Concrete
Villa Varoise for XL Private House
RISD North Hall for Mid-Rise Housing
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Join us Wednesday night!
Posted on July 20th, 2020 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: Events
Brigitte Shim of Shim-Sutcliffe will moderate a conversation between John Wardle, Nader Tehrani, Stefan Mee, and Arthur Chang this Wednesday, July 22nd at 7pm EST via Zoom. The conversation will focus on collaboration as a critical process of exchanging, transforming, and evolving ideas.
PLEASE CONTACT NICOLE SAKR AT
NSAKR@NADAAA.COM FOR THE ZOOM LINK.
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Domus reviews EOYS
Posted on July 17th, 2020 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: The Cooper Union
This may sum up Domus’s Matteo Mirani’s review of The Cooper Union’s EOYS: “You have to experience it. Go to the website”
“Pause. Yes, you have to pause and digest the above. Understanding and enhancing the importance of the notion of “space” and “time” in a school of architecture is a pedagogical statement. The works of the students are on show within the limitations given by the somehow “real” physicality of the space in a given time in history. The works exhibited are dealing with the “friction” embedded in the real space while responding to our times. We are in our field here, architecture. The digital, accurate reconstruction of the school’s space at this time, filled with the students’ works seems fulfilling the mission of the school: the dialogue and the coexistence of different ideas that move forward the disciplinary knowledge in our field.”
Read all Mirani has to say about Cooper’s ambitious digital show HERE.
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NADAAA makes shortlist for 16 Tech
Posted on June 26th, 2020 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: Things We Like
NADAAA has been shortlisted among five other design teams for the design of a new signature bridge linking the 16 Tech innovation district with IUPUI and downtown Indianapolis. More info HERE.
Photo by Mark Taber
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Cooper End of Year Show opens Wednesday
Posted on June 15th, 2020 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: Events, The Cooper Union
The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture’s End of Year Show 2020 will take place online in a virtual Foundation Building exhibition. The virtual exhibition is made possible through a collaborative effort between Architecture faculty, students, and staff, who have developed this special event using Unreal Engine gaming technology. The Show will open this Wednesday, June 17th at 5pm.
REGISTER HERE.
“Mounting this exhibition has been no small feat for our faculty and students who needed to not only curate and assemble its material, but to model the spaces of The Cooper Union as a virtual scaffolding for the work. To be finalizing this exhibition at a time when our world is confronting centuries of systemic Black racism has brought even more weight and meaning to the potential of their extraordinary work. All of our design studios considered a wide range of themes, engaging challenges of natural disaster, social struggle, environmental decadence, and problematic histories, in addition to the larger impact of infrastructures at the geographic scale—complex systems and events which we know negatively affect people of color, underrepresented minorities, those without access to education or health care, and communities suffering from economic inequality. In creating this virtual space, we have hoped to frame the all-important spaces of The Cooper Union as we know them, but also to inhabit them in ways that take advantage of the virtual, suspending disbelief in conventional constraints. Thus, we hope that this exhibition is a judicious and critical curatorial lens into our space of learning, demonstrating the significance of how and why we design our own environments.” – Nader Tehrani
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Congratulations to John Wardle Architects!
Posted on June 10th, 2020 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: Things We Like
John Wardle was recently honored with the Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal for his ‘iterative design process and attention to craft, as well as his collaborations with artists and craftspeople.’ We are so grateful for our collaborations with JWA – including the Melbourne School of Design which John lists in his career top twelve projects shared on Dezeen HERE.
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The Cooper Union’s Online Summer Program
Posted on June 7th, 2020 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: The Cooper Union
The Cooper Union is offering several online summer programs!
Introduction to Architecture Online: Foundation Studies and Portfolio Development for College Students
July 6 – July 31, 2020 | 4-weeks, 4 credits | Live Synchronous Sessions Monday – Friday, 11AM-2PM EST.
Introduction to Architecture Online: Foundation Studies and Portfolio Development for H.S. Students
July 6 – August 7, 2020 | 5-weeks | Live Synchronous Sessions Monday-Friday, 11AM-2PM EST
More info HERE.
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