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In 2011 in partnership with Katherine Faulkner, Tehrani founded NADAAA, a practice dedicated to the advancement of design innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and an intensive dialogue with the construction industry. The two were later joined by partner Arthur Chang. Tehrani is the former Dean [3] of the Cooper Union's Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture.[4] Previously he was a professor of architecture at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning,[5] where he served as Head of the Department from 2010 to 2014, MIT.[6][7] He previously founded Office dA in 1986 with Rodolphe el-Khoury, later being joined by Mónica Ponce de León in 1991.
Nader Tehrani was selected as the recipient of the 2020 Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize, an award which is given "to an architect of any nationality who has made a significant contribution to architecture as an art."[11] Tehrani's work has been recognized with notable awards, including eighteen Progressive Architecture Awards, four 2018 American Architecture Awards, four 2017 Chicago Athenaeum Awards, a 2019 AIA Cote Top Ten Award, a finalist for the 2017 Moriyama RAIC International Prize, and a nominee for the 2017 Marcus Prize for Architecture. Other honors include: a 2014 Holcim Foundation Sustainability Award, the 2012 Boston Society of Architects Hobson Award, the 2007 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture, the 2007 United States Artists, USA Target Fellows AD award, the 2002 American Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award, and the 2002 Harleston Parker Medal. Over the past seven years, NADAAA has consistently ranked as a top design firm in Architect Magazine's Top 50 U.S. Firms List, ranking as First three of those years.
He has authored several articles, including "Aggregation" and "Difficult Synthesis" in Material Design: Informing Architecture through Materiality by Thomas Schroepfer. He also authored "Versioning: Connubial Reciprocities of Surface and Space" in Architectural Design. He wrote the introduction to The Work of Machado & Silvetti, 2018. He wrote the foreword to Victor Lundy: Artist Architect, 2017. He wrote the preface to Patkau Architects, 2017. His 'Tectonic Grain' lecture was published in Manifesto, 2017. He wrote "The Timeless Anachronism of Type" for Obra Architects Logic, 2016 and "Control, Realized" for The Architecture of WOJR. He contributed 'The Architectural Grain' to This Building Likes Me, 2016. In 2016 for The Plan he wrote "A Disaggregated Manifesto: Thoughts on the Architectural Medium and its Realm of Instrumentality". His work has also been internationally reviewed and published in periodicals such as Architect, Architectural Record, Icon, Wallpaper, Monitor, The Plan, Abitare, Mark, Frame', I.D., Contract, Archiworld, the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times, among others.
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