Nader Tehrani lectures at UMD School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation as part of the Kea Professorship. With the construction of UN-L College of Architecture, NADAAA has completed four schools of design around the world. More HERE. Livestream link HERE.
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The Melbourne School of Design and the Daniels Building are featured in Porcelanosa Lifestyle’s article on new educational architecture.
“La arquitectura académica necesita espacios específicos que inducen al estudio, a la concentración de la investigación, a intercambio de ideas y debates entre compañeros para generar un sentido crítico y reforzar el aprendizaje.”
The Summer 2019 edition of Arquine examines the ability of architecture to show and to teach by taking a look at architecture schools around the world. Among the works featured are the Daniels Building and the Melbourne School of Design, both schools that inspire their occupants through their form and integration.
“[The Daniels Building], in bringing together restoration, renovation, and reinvention, is a hub for education, research, and outreach focused on the creation of more environmental, beautiful, and socially sustainable cities.”
“The building itself is a laboratory for experimentation and research…. self-explanatory in its operation and architecture, revealing a logic of construction layers as a pedagogical tool.”
The Evidence Based Design Journal‘s aim is to bridge data-based research with current design practice, positively impacting the health and well-being of building occupants. Darragh O’Brien, managing editor of the journal has analyzed the Melbourne School of Design. Read his full review of the MSD–four years after its completion–HERE.
“In an iterative world, MSD now provides a tempting target for future detailed research into the relationship between collaborative activity and spatial organisation, where the void is the device by which we can create and perceive a complex network of relationships. Ideas are not forced, they brush off on us through constant exposure, over time.”
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The Melbourne School of Design has won the International Architecture Award from the European Center and the Chicago Athenaeum. NADAAA and JWA will be a part of a special exhibition held in Athens, Greece for the Chicago Athenaeum’s annual symposium, “The City and the World”. Learn more about the award HERE
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The Melbourne School of Design has been shortlisted for the 2017 Moriyama RAIC International Prize. The Prize, awarded every two years, recieved entries from 17 countries this year. The shortlisted projects are by BIG, Tezuka Architects, Mackay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects, and NADAAA/John Wardle Architects. The winner of the 2017 Prize will be announced on September 19, 2017 at the RAIC’s gala event at The Carlu in Toronto.
Jury Comments:
“The spatial concept of an architecture school has become the social focus of the campus for all students.”
“It is a beautifully orchestrated space, thoughtfully detailed and well crafted.”
“It redefines the educational mission by engaging students with the entire building as a collaborative learning environment.”
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In an interview with Architecture and Design AU, John Wardle and Stefan Mee (JWA) discuss the trajectory of their practice and the role of collaboration within the architectural discipline. Read more HERE.
“THE STORY OF OUR RISE THROUGH VARIOUS PROJECT SCALES INTO THIS TERRITORY THAT WE NOW INHABIT IS A STORY OF RELATIONSHIPS WITH PEOPLE, THAT HAD THE CONFIDENCE TO ENGAGE WITH US. AS WE’VE GROWN, WE HAVE LOOKED VERY CAREFULLY AT INVITING OTHERS INTO THE PRACTICE THAT HAVE HAD PARTICULAR SKILLS, ALWAYS BROADENING OUR RANGE.”
-John Wardle
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Nader contributed an essay entitled ‘The Architectural Grain to longtime collaborator John Wardle Architects’ THIS BUILDING LIKES ME book.
In what turned out to be a fortuitous turn of events, John Wardle was out of the country when we were to lecture together at the University of Melbourne – this in a bid to win the commission for the new Melbourne School of Design (MSD) building. John was unfazed, although he understood how important it was for us to speak as one on the same podium. Coming together – not as the traditional, international-local shotgun marriage, but as a true collaboration – we had yet to prove how we could bridge the Pacific to convene on the same conceptual platform. Sharing a common intuition, we had not actually worked together; we could only interpret commonalities through a series of projects that, in our minds, could be construed as blood relatives, no matter how far apart they were conceived and built.
Read on to see how NADAAA and JWA’s shared affinity of the ‘grain’ helped us form an unforgettable collaboration HERE.
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