Last night Pratt’s GAUD hosted an informal Pratt Parallels entitled From House to Icon on Governor’s Island. The discussion was moderated by David Erdman and Deborah Mesa and compared and contrasted Marcelo Spina’s new book Mute Icons with Nader’s new book My House is Better Than Your House.
Watch the talk HERE.
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CCA’s Hubbell Street Galleries in San Francisco is hosting Drawing Codes with the inclusion of ‘The Synthetic Code’ by NADAAA’s Nader Tehrani and Matthew Waxman. Drawing Codes explores “emerging technologies of design and production that have opened up new ways to engage with traditional practices of architectural drawing”. While the exhibit is only open to CCA students, staff, and faculty with proof of vaccination, on September 29th at 5pm the CCA is hosting a free public virtual closing lecture. Learn more HERE.
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NADAAA recently had the privilege of collaborating with VLA Dance and their Director & Choreographer Victoria Awkward on the set design for their latest work ‘In The Space Between’. Through contemporary dance, the work “challenges audience members to explore uncomfortable spaces between”. Using our workshop NADLAB we were able to both fabricate and install the set pieces ourselves for the dance company at Boston Center for the Arts.
– Kathryn Boland, Dance Informa
Photos Courtesy of VLA DANCE
Lighting by Elmer Martinez
Photos by Melissa Blackall
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The new NADAAA-designed Adams Street Branch Library has opened in the Adams Village neighborhood of Boston. We are so pleased to see this project completed for the Dorchester community!
I am thrilled that the new and improved Adams Street branch will once again provide an accessible, inclusive place for the Dorchester community to gather, learn, and grow. My local library played a huge part in my upbringing. Libraries like the Adams Street branch continue to bring joy and essential services to residents of all ages.
– Mayor Kim Janey
We’re thrilled and we hope the community will be, too. The old branch was much-loved, but this completely new building certainly raises the bar.
– David Leonard, President, Boston Public Library
The exterior of the 13,450-square-foot building is striking, its sharp angles finished with glazed terra cotta panels and copper. Inside, the space is brightened by floor-to-ceiling windows that offer substantial views of the surrounding neighborhoods, a lovely rock garden, and beyond to the Blue Hills. Overhead, the undulating ceiling is accented with wood-beam baffles meant to mimic the peaks of the roofs on neighboring homes.
– Bill Forey, Dorchester Reporter
New Adams Street library ‘raises the bar’, Dorchester Reporter
Editorial: A victory for libraries, Dorchester Reporter
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Led by Dennis Wedlick, this program series, organized by AIANY Custom Residential Architects Network and co-hosted by the BSA Residential Design Committee, explored the unique perspectives of six practitioners who were recipients of the 2020 AIANY + BSA Residential Design Awards including NADAAA for the Villa Varoise. Watch NADAAA’s joint episode with Paul Schulhof HERE. (Above is our video contribution which describes the design and construction process behind the home.)
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AIANY + BSA Res Arch Now: Lunch/Learn with The 2020 Award Winners, 6 Unique Stories & Perspectives on Residential Architecture Commissions. (Hosted by AIANY CRAN + BSA Residential Design Committee.) register for all three events here 1.5 Credits each.
Part One: Taking Shape Stories, Conversations about New Construction and the Materials, Methods, Means.
Mount Mauwee House (Paul Schulhof)
Villa Varoise (NADAAA)
June 17, 2021 12:00 to 1:30PM
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Nader joins Harriet Hariss, Dean of the Pratt Institute School of Architecture and Robert Kirkbride, Dean of the Parsons’ School of Constructed Environments to discuss “crossing the digital divide” in their end-of-year exhibitions. Register HERE.
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A sneak peek of NADAAA’s installation planned for La Biennale di Venezia 2021: How will we live together?
The cross-laminated timber (CLT) portico will define the edge of the Giardino delle Vergini. It is, at once, a civic yet domestic structure, operating at the scale of the lagoon on the waterside, while intimate and responsive to the garden on the other. Attenuated as it is, it anticipates community, whether in isolation, physical distancing, or social engagement.
The portico exposes a latent grain when it is routed on a diagonal axis, revealing V-shaped herringbone configurations that are an innate part of the layout of the stacked timber. This pattern speaks to the structure of the wood being used, it also speaks to the ornament it exposes as a result of a semantic richness of its own. It speaks to Venice and to a tradition of iconography its construction systems have held for centuries.
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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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