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The Animate Analytique

For his contributions to architecture as an art, Nader Tehrani is the recipient of the 2020 Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, to which he was also elected as a member in 2021. Tehrani has also been named the 2022 Design Visionary by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Museum of Design and has recently been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Tehrani is founding principal of NADAAA, a practice dedicated to the advancement of design innovation. Tehrani is also a professor at and former Dean of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union in New York. His research focuses on the transformation of the building industry, innovative material applications, and the development of new means and methods of construction, especially through digital fabrication. Tehrani’s work has received many prestigious awards, including nineteen Progressive Architecture Awards. Prior to becoming Dean at the Cooper Union, he taught at RISD, Harvard GSD, Georgia Tech, and MIT. Tehrani’s work has been exhibited at MOMA, LA MOCA and ICA Boston. His work is also part of the permanent collection of the Canadian Center for Architecture and the Nasher Sculpture Center.

Discussants: Sung Ho Kim (moderator), Nick Safley