On Thursday, October 20th, at 6pm Nader will present My House is Better than Your House, followed by a conversation with Clark Thenhaus, principal of Endemic Architecture and associate professor of architecture at San Francisco’s CCA. The event is free and open to the public with registration. More details and registration HERE.
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Nader will join IIT’s fall lecture series with a talk and book event for MY HOUSE IS BETTER THAN YOUR HOUSE. The lecture is free and open to the public, beginning at 5pm this Wednesday, October 12th in Crown Hall. More HERE.
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Nader will give a special presentation entitled A Civic Gateway: Revisioning the Otis House next Friday morning at Historic New England’s Summit 2022. Join us to “explore the theory and conceptual approach to revitalizing the oldest home in Boston’s West End as a center for community activity and a gateway to Historic New England.” More info and registration can be found HERE.
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We recently celebrated the winners of this year’s National Design Awards at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. Big congratulations to CW&T, Nader Tehrani, Emily Adams Bode, KDI, Giorgia Lupi, WEDEW, Rural Studio, Willy Chavarria, and Felecia Davis!
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Curbed’s Diana Budds asks Nader about his first job in New York, his favorite places in the city, what he would change about the field of architecture, and what to do in a creative rut. Check out Nader’s 21 Questions HERE.
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This summer Nader served on the Aga Khan architecture awards jury alongside Nada Al Hassan, Kazi Khaleed Ashraf, Amale Andraos, Francis Kéré, Sibel Bozdoǧan, Kader Attia, Lina Ghotmeh, and Anne Lacaton. The final winners, selected for making a difference in the “lives of people and local communites”, were announced today. Congratulations to the six winning projects and teams!
Read more about the winning works from AKDN HERE, from World Architecture HERE, ArchDaily HERE, and CNN HERE.
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Fred Bernstein writes for Architectural Record this month on widespread changes to architecture schools’ curricula that are attempting to right the ship in terms of architecture’s role in global warming. Bernstein interviews several deans, chairs, and professors about ways their schools are pushing students to frame their work around climate change. Nader shares that “For too long, we’ve been teaching students how to integrate mechanical systems into buildings, when we should be looking at how to create building envelopes that reduce reliance on those systems.”
Read on for how schools like the Daniels Faculty at the University of Toronto are approaching their design projects with net zero as a primary constraint HERE.
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Today, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum announced the 23rd class of National Design Award winners, honored for design innovation and impact. The 2022 Design Visionary award has been given to Nader Tehrani for his “profound contribution to advancing the field”.
“This year’s National Design Award winners reflect the central role that design can play in addressing some of the most urgent needs of our time. Attuned to increasing social and planetary challenges, all awardees, regardless of their category, have a regenerative approach to design work that takes into account our shared future. I’m grateful to our thoughtful jury this year for their selection. Their deliberations revealed that behind each winner is a philosophy of work that expertly weaves together technological innovation while elevating traditional craft, or that prioritizes preservation and reparation processes, ultimately designing for citizens, and not consumers—a reason for hope in today’s complex world if there ever was one.”
– Maria Nicanor, director of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
More information on the National Design Awards and this year’s awardees can be found on Cooper Hewitt’s website HERE and in Smithsonian Magazine HERE.
Press coverage: ARCHITECT | Surface | Architect’s Newspaper | Archinect
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Toby Reed of Nervegna Reed Architecture interviews Nader about John Wardle and their collaborations in this issue of 2A
“First and foremost, I would say that he does not impose order and form onto a project, he allows spaces to emerge from circumstances. Those circumstances are sometimes the issues that emerged from a site, a topography, a view, a geography. Other times, they’re internalities that come from a construction system. When you work in wood, it produces a different grain than if you work in brick or in steel. None of it is lacking in authorship per se. But the authorship is always mediated through something that becomes quite legible and authorial on its own terms. So, I would say that’s a strong characteristic of John’s work, and you can trace it through his houses as much as you can trace it through public projects. Embedded in all of those projects is a trope that is very common to ourselves also, that, construction is never smooth. It’s always composed of panelized limits, whether it’s in stone or precast, you see the seam between two things, and he takes advantage of those tectonic limits to demonstrate not only how a system works, but how it’s malleable enough to transform geometrically, spatially, environmentally, and he radicalizes how those things can happen. We not only learn those things from John, but we also shared in those sensibilities before we met him.” – Nader Tehrani on John Wardle
Order your issue HERE.
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