Lecture
Location
Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium
Milstein Hall
Contact
Department of Architecture
Abstract
In an era where wood is being revisited for its sustainable potential, this talk will revolve around formal, spatial, and material explorations that attempt to produce new forms of knowledge around this medium.
This lecture is a part of the Gensler Visiting Critic Lecture Series.
Biography
Nader Tehrani
For his contributions to architecture as an art, Nader Tehrani is the recipient of The American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize, the highest form of recognition of artistic merit in the United States. He is also the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Design, and the Design Visionary by Cooper Hewitt and the Smithsonian Museum of Design National Design awards. Tehrani is the Founding Principal of NADAAA, an interdisciplinary practice with a body of work in infrastructure, urbanism, architecture, and installations. Tehrani is also the former Dean of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union. The works of Nader Tehrani have been widely exhibited at MOMA, LA MOCA, and ICA Boston.
