Coming to The Cooper Union –
Lyrical Urbanism: The Taipei Music Center

Posted on March 21st, 2022 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: Events, The Cooper Union

Musical performance, lecture, and panel discussion 6:30 pm on April 6, 2022 | The Cooper Union Great Hall, Foundation Building, E 7th St, New York, NY 10003

“Lyrical Urbanism: The Taipei Music Center celebrates and communicates the vibrant energy and intensity of the recently completed Taipei Music Center that was designed by architects and Cooper alumni Jesse Reiser AR’81 and Nanako Umemoto AR’83 of Reiser+Umemoto, RUR Architecture. The exhibition introduces the complex’s iconic architecture to an American audience through large-scale photographs, videos, music, and architectural models and drawings. Lyrical Urbanism illustrates the many ways the Music Center is currently inhabited—from informal daytime outdoor markets to organized evening-time music festivals—and how it has become an important urban district where Taiwanese music and culture is cultivated, celebrated, and projected toward a global audience.”

Free and Open to the Public. More information HERE.

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Lyrical Urbanism: The Taipei Music Center

MIT Site 4: “The Elegant Balance of Form and Technology”

Posted on March 14th, 2022 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: _MIT Site 4, Press

“The tower’s distinctive appearance stems from a brilliant combination of technical know-how to meet the structural requirements and ingenious artistic flair.” Read more from Luca Maria Francesco Fabris (including his comparison of Site 4 to a mochaccino!) in the current issue of The Plan HERE.

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Architectural Record: Adams Street Branch Library

Posted on March 7th, 2022 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: _Adams Branch Library, Press

Mark Lamster writes for Architectural Record: ‘The new Adams Street Branch of the Boston Public Library, which opened last summer in the working-class municipality of Dorchester, is pleasing (if a bit of an odd duck), a work of inventive geometries that fits neatly into its low-rise context. The library’s quirky form was the product of a lengthy community-design process, one that forced the architects, Boston-based NADAAA, to rethink its original proposal for the building. The stumbling block was a large oak tree at the north end of the site, which runs along Adams Street, Dorchester’s primary commercial strip. The Boston Public Library wanted it removed, to create a tabula rasa for the new building, and the architects followed that directive. The community, however, desired the tree to stay put, and made that clear in no uncertain terms. In turn, NADAAA founding principal, Nader Tehrani, embraced this “productive friction,” as he calls it, redrawing the plan with the tree as a focal point.’

Read on HERE.

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‘My House is Better than Your House’ is out!

Posted on March 3rd, 2022 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: _Villa Varoise, Press, Things We Like

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.

Read Stella Betts’s book review HERE.

And watch the original ‘My House is Better than Your House’ talk between Preston Scott Cohen and Nader Tehrani HERE.

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