Architect Nader Tehrani, Founding Principal of NADAAA, will present the inaugural Edward A. Feiner Lecture for Public Architecture. An award-winning interdisciplinary practice, NADAAA’s work spans infrastructure, urbanism, architecture, and installations—operating at scales from city planning to fabrication. Known for projects that reshape their contexts and carve out spaces for social engagement, Tehrani’s designs balance material craft, disciplined tectonics, and inventive detailing to create work that is both visually compelling and experientially rich.

Program Schedule

Doors open at 6 pm
Program starts at 6:30 pm
Light reception from 8 to 8:30 pm

This program has applied for 1.5 HSW LU (AIA

About Nader Tehrani

Tehrani received The American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize, the highest form of recognition of artistic merit in the United States, for his “contributions to architecture as an art." With nineteen Progressive Architecture Awards, he is also an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Design, and recipient of the Design Visionary Award from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. The former Head of the Department of Architecture at MIT (2010-14), Tehrani was also Dean of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union (2015-22). His work is featured in the permanent collections of the CCA and the Nasher Sculpture Center, and NADAAA has been widely exhibited at MoMA, LA MoCA and the Venice Biennale.

Spotlight on Design is presented by the Anthony and Keiko Greenberg Foundation.  

Additional support provided by the Edward A. Feiner Fund for Public Architecture and the American Institute of Architects. 

Thank you to the generous supporters of the Edward A. Feiner Fund for Public Architecture: 

Perkins+Will
Amy Blonder
Thom Mayne & Blythe Alison-Mayne
Casey Jones & Reed Kroloff
Chris Morrison
Craig Hartman
Grunley Construction Company
Leers Weinzapfel Associates
LSM
Lindsey Peckinpaugh
Margaret McCurry
Marilyn Farley
Meg Brown
Ralph Johnson
Ray Huff
Robert A.M. Stern Architecture
Ron Stelmarski
Ross Barney Architects
Safdie Architects
Snow Kreilich Architects
Steven Davis
TenBerke
Thomas Grooms
Toshiko Mori

Image courtesy NADAAA, photo by Jeremy Son.