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Carlos Lanuza (Managua, 1985) holds a Ph.D. in Architecture, and two master’s degrees: the first one in Theory and Practice of Architectural Design by the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura at the Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña (ETSAB – UPC), and the second one in Interior Design by the Barcelona School of Design and Engineering ELISAVA.
His final Ph.D. dissertation studies a period which covers the last fifteen years of Mies van der Rohe’s both life and career -1954 to 1969-, and the operations that made him capable of responding to different developments and places in an effective way through the architectural project.
He is the local correspondent and contributor in Barcelona to Arquine (Mexico), has translated 100 Buildings (The Now Institute) for Gustavo Gili, and in 2021 won the FINAL_FINAL grant to write a book on new narratives in architecture.
He has worked in several architecture and interior design offices in Barcelona. His main interest lies in how design determines our everyday life, from the largest to the smallest scale.
Carlos is a 2021 Future Architecture Platform selected creative.
About the Lecture / Building narratives. A diary of the common
We are bound, from an early age, to love and be loved in certain ways through boundaries. There are hard and soft limits, some of them are obvious and others are invisible. They are fictions that we agree to, used to control our lives and those of others. Although they are only the reflection of our fears and insecurities, they become the elements that end up articulating our social relationship system, they create languages of affection or rejection.
These reflections aim to create new narratives based on the thorough look at the implications that the built space has in the way we relate to each other, and how our relationships also affect space. To do so, it is necessary to understand that the moral ground on which they are founded must be questioned to comprehend that care transcends all ethic spheres, that we hopelessly seek care, and that this force ends up configuring new landscapes, imaginary or built.
What is the narrative of these fictions? For this I put forward a diary of the common, the ordinary, the vulgar and humdrum. The main objective of this lecture will be to explain how the book Only the lull I Like was thought, not as an architectural theory book, but as a fiction in which reflections about the built space were poured out, and how architectural discourse must be redefined in order to widen its scope to a more ambiguous and open understanding of reality.
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Carlos Lanuza (Managua, 1985) mban titullin Ph.D. në Arkitekturë, dhe dy diploma masteri: e para në Teoria dhe Praktika e Dizajnit Arkitektonik nga ‘Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura” në Universitetin Politécnica de Cataluña (ETSAB – UPC), dhe e dyta në Dizajn të Brendshëm nga Shkolla e Dizajnit dhe Inxhinierisë në Barcelonë ELISAVA.
Disertacioni përfundimtar i doktoratës së tij studion një periudhë e cila mbulon pesëmbëdhjetë vitet e fundit të jetës dhe karrierës së Mies van der Rohe 1954 to 1969-, dhe veprimet të cilat e bënë atë të aftë për t’iu pergjigjur në mënyrë efektive zhvillimeve dhe vendeve të ndryshme përmes projektit arkitektonik.
Ai është korrespondent dhe kontribues lokal në Barcelonë për Arquine (Meksikë), ka përkthyer ‘100 Buildings’ – ‘100 Ndërtesat’ (Instituti Now) për Gustavo Gili, dhe në vitin 2021 fitoi grantin FINAL_FINAL për të shkruar libër mbi rrëfimet e reja në arkitekturë.
Ai ka punuar në disa studio të arkitekturës dhe dizajnit të brendshëm në Barcelonë. Interesimi i tij themelor qëndron në atë se si dizjani përcakton jetën tonë të përditshme, nga shkalla më e madhe në atë më të vogël.
Rreth Ligjerates / Building narratives. A diary of the common
Ne jemi të detyruar, që në moshë të re, të duam dhe të jemi të dashur në forma të caktuara përmes kufijve. Ka kufij të fortë dhe të butë, disa prej tyre janë të dukshëm dhe disa të tjerë janë të padukshëm. Ato janë trillime me të cilat jemi mësuar të kontrollojnë jetën tonë dhe jetën e të tjerëve. Ndonëse janë vetëm reflektim i frikës dhe pasigurive tona, ata shndërrohen në elemente të cilat përfundojnë duke artikuluar sistemin tonë të marrëdhineve shoqërore, krijojnë gjuhe dashurie apo refuzimi.
Këto reflektime mëtojnë të krijojnë rrëfime të reja bazuar në vështrimin e plotë të ndikimeve që ka hapësira e ndërtuar, mënyrën se si lidhemi me njëri tjetrin, dhe poashtu se si marrëdhëniet tona ndikojnë gjithashtu në hapësirë.Për ta bërë këtë, është e nevojshme të kuptohet se baza morale mbi të cilën ato janë themeluar duhet të vihet në pikëpyetje për të kuptuar se kujdesi i tejkalon të gjitha sferat etike, se ne kërkojmë kujdes pa shpresë dhe se kjo forcë përfundon duke konfiguruar peizazhe të reja, imagjinare apo të ndërtuara.
Cili është rrëfimi I këtyre trillimeve? Për këtë unë parashtroj një ditar të së zakonshmës, të rëndomtës, vulgarës dhe rutinës.
Qëllimi kryesor i kësaj ligjerate do të jetë spjegimi se si libri “Vetëm përgjumja që më pëlqen “Only the lull I like” ishte i menduar, jo si libër i teorisë arkitektonike, por si një trillim në të cilin u hodhën reflektime për hapësirën e ndërtuar, dhe se si diskurisi arkitektonik duhet të ripërcaktohet në mënyrë që të zgjerohet fusheveprimi i tij në një kuptim më të paqartë dhe të hapur të realitetit.
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Diogo Pereira Henriques is a Portuguese architect and researcher, living between Europe and Asia, and working on urban futures, international networks and participation. He studied and worked for internationally recognised universities and award-winning practices in the fields of urbanism, architecture, art, design, software, research, and higher education in Europe (Barcelona, Bristol, Eindhoven, Lisbon, Newcastle, and Rome) and Asia (Macau-Hong Kong), through multiple languages (English, Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Cantonese, and Japanese) within international environments and multicultural and diverse teams.
He presented and exhibited his research and practice in Italy, Spain, Portugal, UK, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Belgium, China, and Japan. Since 2019, he is a member of the editorial board, as social media editor, of the Nexus Network Journal, an academic journal in the field of architecture and mathematics, published in print by Birkhäuser and online by Springer Nature.
About the Lecture / Participation, participation, participation
In the context of the idea ‘Afro-Futures in European Enclaves’, selected in the Future Architecture Platform Call 2021 ‘Landscapes of Care’, Diogo is developing a digital archive (with open data) for this project, mapping significant social change events and informal networks promoting equality and inclusion in Europe. The project shows dynamics of solidarity and collective self-organization, and informal networks of trust, developing alternative African European Futures. Particularly for this presentation at KAF 2021, under the theme of Alter-Nation, Diogo will also focus on recent participatory approaches that could help build a different (better) reality for a young state such as Kosovo.
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Diogo Pereira Henriques është arkitekt portugez dhe hulumtues, i cili jeton midis Evropës dhe Azisë, duke punuar në të ardhmen urbane, rrjetet ndërkombëtare dhe pjesëmarrjen. Ai studioi dhe punoi për universitete të njohura ndërkombëtarisht dhe zyre fituese të çmimeve në fushën e urbanizmit, arkitekturës, artit, dizajnit, softuerit, hulumtimit dhe arsimit të lartë në Evropë (Barcelona, Bristol, Eindhoven, Lisbonë, Newcastle dhe Romë) dhe Azi (Macau-Hong Kong), përmes gjuhëve të shumta (anglisht, portugalisht, frëngjisht, italisht, spanjisht, kinezisht, dhe japonisht) brenda mjediseve ndërkombëtare dhe ekipeve multikulturore dhe të larmishme.
Ai paraqiti dhe shfaqi hulumtimin dhe praktikën e tij në Itali, Spanjë, Portugali, Mbretërinë e Bashkuar, Irlandë, Suedi, Danimarkë, Republikën Çeke, Holandë, Belgjikë, Kinë dhe Japoni. Që nga viti 2019, ai është anëtar i bordit redaktues, si redaktor i medias sociale, nëNexus Network Journal, një ditar akademik në fushën e arkitekturës dhe matematikës, të botuar në shtyp nga Birkhäuser dhe online nga Springer Nature.
Rreth Ligjeratës / Pjesëmarrja, Pjesëmarrja, Pjesëmarrja
Në kontekstin e idesë ‘Të ardhmes afro në Enklavat Evropiane’, e përzgjedhur nga platforma Future Architecture Platform në thirrjen e vitit 2021 me temën ‘Landscapes of Care’, jam duke po zhvilluar një arkiv dixhital (me të dhëna të hapura) për këtë projekt, duke hartëzuar ngjarje të rëndësishme të ndryshimeve shoqërore dhe rrjetet informale që promovojnë barazinë dhe përfshirjen në Evropë. Projekti tregon dinamikën e solidaritetit dhe vetë-organizimit kolektiv, dhe rrjeteve informale të besimit, duke zhvilluar të ardhme alternative Afrikane Evropiane. Veçanërisht për këtë prezantim në KAF 2021, nën temën e ‘Alter-Nation’, unë gjithashtu do të përqendrohem në qasjet e fundit pjesëmarrëse që mund të ndihmojnë për të ndërtuar një realitet të ndryshëm (më të mirë) për një shtet të ri si Kosova.
2021 Creative Exchange: Landscapes of Care will be one of the first major events dedicated to the conversation about the New European Bauhaus and the European Green Deal, announced in September 2020 by the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
The annual convention will take place online this year under the title Landscapes of Care. The participants will be addressed by Xavier Troussard, head of the New European Bauhaus at the European Commission’s Joint Research Center. The main guest at this year’s event will be Amica Dall, who holds a degree in English literature and anthropology and is one of the fifteen founders of the non-hierarchical multidisciplinary London collective Assemble, which produces architecture, art, urban design, and research—and in doing so focuses on the social and material processes of urban development.
The core of the 2021 Creative Exchange will be nine live discussions with twenty-seven young artists and experts from various disciplines that responded to this year’s call for ideas, the platform’s tool for encouraging emerging creatives to present their innovative architectural ideas to a wide range of decision-makers and stakeholders, and fifteen curators, directors, and program managers that will carry out the events in the 2021 European Architectural Program. The discussions will include participants addressing topics of public space, landscape, buildings, revisiting histories, transdisciplinarity, paradigm shifts, feminism in architecture, decolonization, and new policies.
Schedule
Landscapes of Care Short Film Premiere
FEBRUARY 26TH, 12:00 noon, CET
>> https://futurearchitecturerooms.org
Premiere of twenty-seven short videos selected in the Future Architecture 2021 Call for Ideas: Landscapes of Care as a representative introduction to the 2021 Creative Exchange.
The Creative Exchange live program will begin on the 3rd of March 13:00 CET and you can access it through the FARooms link.
ACAN is a voluntary network of individuals from within architecture and its related built environment professions taking critical action to transform our industry in the face of the climate and ecological crises.
ACAN exists to address the way our built environment is made, operated and renewed in response to the climate emergency. As a network of individuals, we channel personal energy, expertise and action towards a common goal – the systemic change of our profession and the construction industry as a whole. We see this as a matter of urgency.
Our mission is to mobilise a new movement of professional activists towards this goal by building an open, supportive and inclusive organisation. ACAN empowers individuals to proactively seek change and facilitates collective effort through a shared platform built on collaboration.
ACAN has 3 overarching aims that guide all we do:
1 – DECARBONISE NOW
We seek to radically transform the regulatory, economic and cultural landscape in which our built environment is made, operated and renewed in order to facilitate rapid decarbonisation of the built environment.
2 – ECOLOGICAL REGENERATION
We advocate the immediate adoption of regenerative & ecological principles in order to green the built environment, prioritise communities and ecosystems at threat and promote the recovery and restoration of natural environments.
3 – CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION
We call for a complete remodelling of our professional culture. We must challenge and redefine the value systems at the heart of our industry and education system. We seek to create an open network to share resources and knowledge to aid in this transition.
ACAN are Future Architecture Platform 2020 Selected Creatives.
About the lecture & workshop / September/18/2020 19:30 CET
Lecture + workshop about the climate and biodiversity emergency, architecture’s part in it and how YOU can get involved to make a difference.
ACAN formed in London over the summer of 2019, in this talk we will take you through how ACAN was conceived, founded and is expanding. We will explain the principles and activities fundamental to the network, talk through some of the actions we have taken and explain the changes we are trying to bring about. We will discuss how to build effective campaigns and make an inclusive network of engaged individuals working collaboratively to address the climate and biodiversity crises.
There will be a short Q&A session before we divide the audience into groups. With a facilitator from ACAN you will be asked to discuss what issues affect your region and areas of expertise, how these could be overcome and what would be needed to make changes for the better.
This will not be the a run of the mill lecture and audience participation will be vital! Don’t be afraid, we will create a fun, inclusive forum for people to speak their mind and meet others who share their concerns. The movement is building and we want you all to be a part of it.
In the first 20 minutes we will take you through how ACAN was conceived, founded and is expanding, we will explain the principles and activities fundamental to the network. We will talk through some of the actions we have taken and explain the changes we are trying to bring about. We will discuss how to build effective campaigns and make an inclusive network of engaged individuals working effectively to address the climate and biodiversity crises.
There will then be a short Q&A session before we divide the audience into groups to discuss what issues affect your region and areas of their expertise, how they could be overcome and what would be needed to make changes for the better.
This will not be the a run of the mill lecture and audience participation will be vital! Don’t be afraid, we will create a fun, inclusive forum for people to speak their mind and meet others who share their concerns. The movement is building, and we want you all to be a part of it.
All interested to join the workshop can register through the workshop Link.
Welcome to the Future Architecture Rooms – an unconventional digital environment
How does it look when 27 leading European architecture institutions and organisations open their doors online?
Future Architecture Rooms is an unconventional digital environment, a collection of online spaces—rooms! Each of the member institutions of the Future Architecture platform – from famous museums to small galleries, an unorthodox publishing house or a provocative architectural biennial – use the rooms as stages for statements about their future work, as well as their reflections on this extraordinary contemporary context. You may open any door and find yourself in places of knowledge exchange, education, and adventure.
Born out of the lockdown
Future Architecture Rooms is a project that was born out of the lockdown, yet which opens its doors to worlds beyond the immediate crisis. Each room is hosted by one institution, one member of Future Architecture platform. 27 rooms behind 27 doors, producing a stunning diversity of materials, plots and ideas. Together they constitute – both visually and metaphorically – the architecture of the platform, making the most of its richness.
Enter the Rooms
Meet the artists, architects, curators, producers and creative directors behind these institutions. See them in their working habitats – studies, labs, salons, archives, exhibition halls or libraries. Learn about their teams, their working methods and their interests.
Visit their program all over Europe
Among the first opening the doors to their rooms are the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Tbilisi Architecture Biennial, Design Biotop, S AM Swiss Architecture Museum, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, DAI-SAI Association of Istrian Architects, Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Architektūros fondas! The rest will continue opening up in the following weeks. We are already looking forward to new rooms opening throughout September.
Future Architecture Rooms is a project by Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana.
Director: Matevž Čelik
Creators
Anastassia Smirnova (SVESMI), concept curator
Anna Kulachek, graphic designer
Maksim Karalevich, digital developer
Milan Dinevski, executive curator
With the participation of James Taylor-Foster (ArkDes) and Bika Rebek (Some Place).
Enter the Future Architecture Rooms >>
Ajmona Hoxha is an architect engaged with projects in urbanism and public space. Engaged since 2016 with 51N4E, a Brussel-based practice and the daughter company iRI based in Tirana, she acts as a project lead for a series of public space projects, among which the recently awarded as the ‘Best European Public Space’, as well as finalists of ‘Mies van der Rohe Award 2019’, central plaza of Skanderbeg Square. Over the years she has worked in a variety of contexts such as Tirana, Istanbul, Brussels, with a focus in projects with public character, reflecting her personal interest for cross- cultural environments. Prior to 51N4E, she was engaged in Atelier Albania, a research by design atelier, acting as a project coordinator for a series of international competitions in Albania, aiming the revitalization of public buildings among which ‘Reactivation of Heritage Cultural Quartet’, a revitalization project for public iconic abandoned buildings in Tirana. Her former teaching experience at Epoka University in Tirana, contributed to a thorough research on the Urban Ecology and its impact in Public Space, exemplified in the case study of the central plaza of Tirana.
About the lecture / September/30/2020 18:30 CET
Skenderbeg Square
Skanderbeg Square, an overview that scrutinizes through the ambitious transformation of the central plaza in Tirana, Albania, the economic center as well as a place of great symbolic value for the country. Originating as a result of the 1939 urban renewal plan under the occupation of Italy, turned into a parade ground during the dictatorship of Enver Hoxha, and lately a busy traffic square in the 1990s, revitalization of Skanderbeg square redesigns also a long history, accompanied by controversial discussions.
Transforming the central square of a nation that was founded only in 1912 and that is now a developing, young democracy, the project compresses all the hopes and tensions that come with that transition. Although, the competition took place as early as 2007, the process underwent a series of ruptures and got finalized only a decade after. Designing such a public space, laden with history and aspirations, required the reframing of a new image that encapsulated the previous ones, and looking at the history and the heritage as a sequence of ideas and interventions; a palimpsest, a space that needs to transform in order to stay alive.
Skanderbeg Square combines together a new form – a pyramidal square that is surrounded by a green antechamber, a belt that allows for time to prepare before stepping in the vast open space. Aligned by a pantheon of prominent public buildings, it enhances that each one of them is equally present on the square, antagonizing a commercial realm, rather inviting the user to a civic space, a stage where citizens can become dominant. A common ground to stay and reflect, a stage where a multitude of actions can happen. The square is adorned with the green belt, an opportunity to create a climate within a climate, and invites users to become part of it via their own appropriation or by entering a ‘dialogue’ between premises sitting on the square and their ‘gardens’, which often become hosts to their functions.
Finalized in 2017, today Skanderbeg Square has turned into a public space of more than ten hectares exclusively for the pedestrian use, with a generous open esplanade of greenery in the heart of the capital city.
Benedetta Tagliabue studied architecture at the Istituto di Architettura di Venezia (IUAV) and currently acts as director of the international architecture firm Miralles Tagliabue EMBT, founded in 1994 in collaboration with Enric Miralles, based in Barcelona, Shanghai and Paris.
Among her most notable projects built are the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, Diagonal Mar Park, the Santa Caterina market in Barcelona, Campus Universitario de Vigo, and the Spanish Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo which was awarded the prestigious RIBA International “Best International Building of 2011” award.
Current studio projects include the Business School of Fudan University in Shanghai, office towers in Xiamen and Taichung, public spaces of HafenCity in Hamburg Germany, the metro station Clichy-Montfermeil in Paris, France (1st prize in competition), the Naples Underground Central Station in Italy, among others.
Her studio works in the fields of architecture, design of public spaces, rehabilitation, interior and industrial design. Her poetic architecture, always attentive to its context, has won international awards in the fields of public space and design.
In the teaching field, she has been a visiting professor at Harvard University, Columbia University and Barcelona ETSAB, lecturing regularly at architecture forums and universities, and is part of jurors around the world, e.g. the Princesa de Asturias awards and since 2014 she is part of the jury of the Pritzker Prize. In 2004 she received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland.
Her work received the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2005, the National Spanish Prize in 2006, the Catalan National prize in 2002, City of Barcelona prize in 2005 and 2009, FAD prizes in 2000, 2003 and 2007.
She received the 2013 RIBA Jencks Award, which is given annually to an individual or practice that has recently made a major contribution internationally to both the theory and practice of architecture. And in May 2019, she received the Cross of Sant Jordi granted by the Generalitat of Catalonia for the excellence of her professional practice in the field of architecture worldwide.
She is also the director of the Enric Miralles Foundation, whose goal is to promote experimental architecture in the spirit of her late husband and partner Enric Miralles.
Miralles Tagliabue EMBT is an international acknowledged architecture studio founded in 1994 by the association of Enric Miralles (1955-2000) and Benedetta Tagliabue in Barcelona. Coincidently this partnership began just before the start of the Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona’92, an apogee period of the city and its architecture.
During their cooperation, Enric and Benedetta started projects like the New Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, the Utrecht City Hall in Holland, the Headquarters of Gas Natural, the Market and neighbourhood of Santa Caterina, their own house in the old city in Barcelona and so on.
After the premature death of Enric Miralles in 2000, husband and partner of Benedetta, she continued leading their office, Miralles Tagliabue EMBT as a sole partner, finishing over ten uncompleted works of Enric and starting many new ones.
EMBT’s mature approach to architecture, interior design, facility planning includes experience with educational, commercial, industrial and residential buildings, restoration of buildings as well as special purpose landscape architecture.
The studio has experience in public spaces and buildings in both Europe and China working for State and Local Governments as well as Corporate and private clients.
Current studio projects include the Business School of Fudan University in Shanghai, office towers in Xiamen and Taichung, public spaces of HafenCity in Hamburg Germany, the metro station Clichy-Montfermeil in Paris, France (1st prize in competition) and the metro central station inNaples, Italy, among others.
Today EMBT has offices in Barcelona and Shanghai, and is operating all over the world with a number of new projects in Europe, China, Taiwan, etc. Continuously growing and developing, the working environment is multicultural and full of young aspiring architects working hand in hand with the project directors to produce new innovative ideas and designs.
Nonetheless the office has kept its fundamental core: an open approach, full of exploration and experiments together with a high level of conceptual thought.
As an acknowledgment of the work done over the years, EMBT has received the Catalan National prize in 2002, RIBA Stirling Prize in 2005, the National Spanish Prize in 2006, City of Barcelona prize in 2005 and 2009, FAD prizes in 2000, 2003 and 2007, and WAF prizes in 2010 and 2011.
Shpend Ahmeti was born on April 18, 1978, in Pristina. He graduated in master studies in Public Policies at Harvard University, USA, during the years 2002-2004, specializing in Economic and Political Development. He has completed university studies in Economics and Business Administration at the American University in Bulgaria, during the years 1996-2000, specializing in Applied Economics and Business Administration.
During the studies between the years 1999-2002, Mr. Ahmeti was senator and then the President of the Student Government at American University in Bulgaria, as well as leader of various communities (from more than ten countries) through the period of reforms at university. At the American Universities, involvement in the students’ government is the experience that combines knowledge, organization, confronting the protection of the rights and responsibility of faith from friends and colleagues.
Since 2005, Shpend is a lecturer of Public Policies and International Economic Policies at the American University in Kosovo (AUK). He is currently serving his second mandate as the Prishtina Mayor.
About the event / September/22/2020 18:30 CET
The Mayor will be joining a panel on the “Prishtina Public Archipelago” together with Donika Luzhnica, Eliza Hoxha, Arber Sadiki, Nol Binakaj and Bekim Ramku. The panel will be discussing the publicness issues in Prishtina, specifically the public “islands” that the KAF team selected for their study which is going to be presented at the Venice Biennale Architecture Exhibition in 2021.
For his contributions to architecture as an art, Nader Tehrani is the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ 2020 Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize.
Nader Tehrani is the Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union in New York. He was previously a professor of architecture at MIT, where he served as the Head of the Department from 2010-2014. He is also Principal of NADAAA, a practice dedicated to the advancement of design innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and an intensive dialogue with the construction industry.
Tehrani received a B.F.A. and a B.Arch from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1985 and 1986 respectively. He continued his studies at the Architectural Association, where he attended the Post-Graduate program in History and Theory. Upon his return to the United States, Tehrani received the M.A.U.D from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1991.
Tehrani has taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Rhode Island School of Design, the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he served as the Thomas W. Ventulett III Distinguished Chair in Architectural Design, and the University of Toronto’s Department of Architecture where he served as the Frank O. Gehry International Visiting Chair in Architectural Design, Landscape and Design. He also recently served as the William A. Bernoudy Architect in Residence at the American Academy in Rome and the inaugural Paul Helmle Fellow at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
Tehrani has lectured widely at institutions including the Guggenheim Museum in New York, Harvard University, Princeton University and the Architectural Association. Tehrani has participated in many symposia including the Monterey Design Conference (2009), the Buell Center ‘Contemporary Architecture and its Consequences’ at Columbia University (2009), and the Graduate School of Design ‘Beyond the Harvard Box’ (2006). The works of Nader Tehrani have been widely 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.
His work has been published in a variety of journals internationally which reflect his research on materiality, fabrication and tectonics. Selected articles include: ‘Versioning: Connubial Reciprocities of Surface and Space’ published in Architectural Design (Sep, Oct 2002); ‘Aggregation’ and ‘Difficult Synthesis’, featured in Material Design: Informing Architecture by Materiality, by Thomas Schroepfer (2011); ‘A Disaggregated Manifesto’ published in The Plan (2016); and ‘The Tectonic Grain’, featured in Manifesto 21 (2017). Tehrani’s work has been exhibited at institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, LA MoCA, and is part of the permanent exhibit at the Nasher and the Canadian Center for Architecture.
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 Hobson Award, the 2007 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture, the 2007 United States Artists Award, USA Target Fellows AD award, the 2002 American Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award, and the 2002 Harleston Parker Award. 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.
About the lecture / October/08/2020 19:30 CET
Probable Architecture of Improbable Reason
