This award recognizes creative design work that advances the discipline of architecture through development and use of digital media. NADAAA will be honored at ACADIA’s 2023 Conference in Denver this October. See the other 2023 honorees HERE and find more info on the convention HERE.
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Record’s Matt Hickman takes a look at NADAAA and HDR’s collaboration in mass timber at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Architecture as part of their current special issue. Check out the full digital version HERE.
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A new exhibit and festival at arc en rêve in Bordeaux will inspect the ways video contributes to the communication of architecture and space. NADAAA’s video ‘The Zayandeh-rud River Basin’, created for the 2021 Venice Biennale and winner of the TRANSFER Architecture Video Award, will be presented as a part of the exhibition. More information HERE.
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Nader reviews Carla Ferrer, Thomas Hildebrand, and Celina Marinez-Cañavate’s new book for Architectural Record. The book explores forest management and the “illusion of infinite bounty”, the “present architectural arms race to build enlightened wood structures”, and the future of timber.
“Composed of three segments, its various writers bring perspectives ranging in disciplines to allow for a broader cultural reading than any conventional book on wood technologies. Acknowledging the already present and looming crisis of climate change as a central protagonist, the book also positions the balance of merits and liabilities in developing an attitude toward the production of wood, allowing the readers to better understand how a sustainable production of wood is a plan that cannot occur as a single decision but as something that requires ongoing efforts over years, administrations, nations, and cultures.”
Read on HERE.
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NADAAA is collaborating with Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (LCPA) on an initiative to make its iconic New York City campus more welcoming and equitable. The initiative will focus on community and stakeholder engagement in collaboration with the nonprofit Hester Street. The primary goal of the process is to physically transform the Amsterdam Avenue side of campus and improve Damrosch Park to better serve Lincoln Center neighbors including the residents of the New York City Housing Authority campuses across Amsterdam Avenue and students of the nearby high schools.
Read LCPA’s full press release HERE.
Read the New York Times article HERE.
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On Friday, June 9, at this year’s national AIA conference in San Francisco, Nader will join The Met’s vice president of construction, Jhaelen Hernandez-Eli, and architects Frida Escobedo and Kulapat Yantrasast, Ph.D. for a session on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s current architectural projects. The panel will give a behind-the-scenes look at how The Met works with architects to refine its mission, make decisions, and solve problems.
More info on the session HERE. Register for the AIA Conference on Architecture 2023 HERE.
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“Arts and cultural institutions are living sites of memory. They create narratives of the past informed by the present. The architect’s ability to mediate between the two is crucial.” -AN’s Malika Leiper writes on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s current architectural and curatorial undertakings.
Read on HERE.
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This Sunday, April 30, get a sneak peek of plans underway for NADAAA’s Turkey Bend project in Houston with a tour of the site and a panel discussion on the role of graffiti in the project. Turkey Bend is a former industrial site that is being repurposed as a community recreational space by the Buffalo Bayou Partnership.
More info on the tour and registration HERE.
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The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has elected Nader Tehrani as a new member of the Visual Arts. The Academy, founded in 1790, is an honorary society for excellence across academic and professional fields. The Academy brings its members together for cross-disciplinary research “to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.”
Nader joins the company of many past notable members including Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Georgia O’Keeffe, Albert Einstein, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, and Nelson Mandela. Among his Visual Arts peers are Jasper Johns, Maya Lin, Peter Zumthor, Wong Kar Wai, and Francis Kéré.
All the 2023 newly elected members are listed on the Academy’s website HERE.
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On Monday, May 15 at 6:30 pm Nader will present The Animate Analytique at Perloff Hall/Decafe at UCLA in their free spring public lecture serires. More HERE.
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