Nader Tehrani Is Literally Shaping the Future of Architecture

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When the new architecture school building at the University of Toronto opens in September, it will mark a milestone for Nader Tehrani. The founder of the New York- and Boston-based firm NADAAA has completed three architecture school buildings—a feat that no one else is known to have achieved. Each building will inevitably convey lessons about architecture to students who use it—giving Tehrani (who is also the dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at New York’s Cooper Union) an unprecedented degree of influence over architecture education.His first architecture school building, which opened six years ago, is at Georgia Tech, where he, in collaboration with Lord Aeck Sargent, turned a former engineering facility into a center for graduate architecture programs. Tehrani was able to suspend a design studio from an existing steel gantry, providing a lesson in structural audacity and leaving the building’s ground floor unencumbered (and thus able to serve myriad functions).
Nader Tehrani Is Literally Shaping the Future of Architecture | Architectural Digest

I wish as much thought was put into the architecture at other universities and K-12 schools.
 

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