TANDERRUM: SPANNING THE GAP BETWEEN PARK AND PRECINCT

Posted on February 22nd, 2017 by Jalisa Joyner

Posted under: _Tanderrum Bridge, Press

The newly opened Tanderrum Bridge is featured in Australian Institute of Landscape’s Foreground.

“A new pedestrian bridge in one of Australia’s most heavily-trod sports precincts recalls the civic generosity of a different era.” – Andrew Mackenzie

Read more HERE.

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SAVE THE DATE: ‘Current Work: Schools of Thought’

Posted on February 21st, 2017 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: Academic, Events, Lectures, The Cooper Union

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Nader is presenting NADAAA’s work at a public lecture on April 5th at the Cooper Union as part of The Architectural League’s Current Work series. An introduction will be given by Anthony Vidler and a post-lecture conversation will be moderated by Florian Idenburg. This lecture is co-sponsored by The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union. Tickets will be available late March HERE.

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Reflecting on Victor Lundy and ‘Beyond the Harvard Box’

Posted on February 16th, 2017 by Nader Tehrani

Posted under: Academic, Things We Like

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Curated and prepared by Michael Meredith, the ‘Beyond The Harvard Box’ exhibition and Symposium, now a decade old, included a range of critical voices from the Modern era –among them, Edward L. Barnes, John Johansen, I.M. Pei, Ulrich Franzen, Paul Rudolph and Victor Lundy– whose voices were an important part of the evolution of the canons to which they responded.

Watch the full symposium here: Part 1 / Part 2

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Air Flowers, New York World’s Fair, 1964

Of them all, Lundy stands out for his persistent attention to material agency: the careful engagement of material technologies as the prerequisite to design. What Lundy’s work demonstrates is the possibility that rules of composition, whether classical or modern, do not necessarily need to preempt design approaches, but rather that the discrete and incremental unit of material organization can become the DNA that enables multiple compositional predispositions. For this reason, even though many of Lundy’s buildings manifest well-known figurative and monumental strategies, they also reveal how material units offer many alternative formal, spatial and organizational potentials.

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Unitarian Meeting House, Hartford, Connecticut, 1964

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Canopies, Museum of History and Technology, now known as the National Museum of American History, c. 1967

The work itself is also characterized by an authorship that denies signature in the form of a common style or singular voice; instead each project achieves a material sensibility that emerges from operations on material behavior, methods of aggregation, and their requisite formal malleability. As such, its part to whole relationships enjoy the same precision as Mies Van der Rohe’s work, but its formal and figurative ambitions are more aligned with the type of exploration that Le Corbusier might have entertained. At the same time Lundy’s materiality suggests a texture and density that only Aalto would have engaged, but in Lundy’s hands it is much more intellectually targeted and materially restrained. These composite characteristics make Lundy less prone to easy characterization and, in turn, less consumable. In great part, this is why he did not reach the pantheon of the great modernist architects or achieve a wider audience, but if seen from the viewpoint presented here, he exemplifies a paradigmatic position that in hindsight has become a classic.

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First Unitarian Church, Westport, CT, 1960

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From the perspective of our own research, the connections are obvious, but one can extend this lineage to protagonists like Herzog & de Meuron before us who realigned thinking in relation to materials— to a younger generation of architects after us, like Skylar Tibbits who have been rethinking material behavior at the molecular level. Looking back at the video of the Symposium, what is startling, and humorous, is my desperate attempt to draw out this thesis from Lundy himself, alas to futility. His intellectual project is implicit, even in those moments when he refutes them, or so I hope, as they emerge from the precise constructive composition of the work itself.

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IBM Garden State Office, Cranford, NJ, 1965

 

 

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Tanderrum Bridge Construction Timelapse!

Posted on February 12th, 2017 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: _Tanderrum Bridge, construction

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NADAAA WINS 17TH PA AWARD

Posted on February 11th, 2017 by Jalisa Joyner

Posted under: Awards, Press

NADAAA’s NH Retreat wins a 2017 Progressive Architecture Award! Our 17th PA! Read more HERE and HERE.

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NADER TO JURY AZ AWARDS

Posted on February 6th, 2017 by Jalisa Joyner

Posted under: Academic

Nader will join Nina-Marie Lister of Plandform, Alessandro Munge of Studio Munge, Theo Richardson of Rich Brilliant Willing, and Michael Vanderbyl of Vanderbyl Design to jury AZURE Magazine’s 2017 AZ Awards. Read more HERE.

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