Nader Tehrani | NADAAA

Wednesday Nov. 5, 2025 , 5 to 6 p.m.
Texas Union Theater
Join us for NADAAA's founding principal Nader Tehrani's lecture, "Animate Analytique."
A modern three-story brick house at dusk with large, irregularly placed windows, glowing warmly inside. Unique metal sculptures and rocking chairs are on the patio in front of the house.

ABOUT NADER TEHRANI

For his “contributions to architecture as an art”, Nader Tehrani is the recipient of The American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize, the highest form of recognition of artistic merit in the United States. 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. 

Tehrani is the Founding Principal of NADAAA, an interdisciplinary practice with works in infrastructure, urbanism, architecture, and installations. 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 Nasher Museum, and NADAAA has been widely exhibited at MOMA, LA MOCA and the Venice Biennale. 

People walk past the modern entrance of a building featuring sharp angles, vertical metal fins, and large glass panels, next to an older brick structure under a clear sky.
One Spadina Crescent at the University of Toronto

 

A modern building made of dark, textured bricks with a large upper section jutting outward, featuring narrow vertical windows. Leafless trees and a clear blue sky are in the background.
Tongxian Gatehouse Community Arts Complex

 

A bald person wearing glasses and a dark t-shirt sits at a table, holding a pen and looking at the camera, with an open notebook in front of them against a plain white background.
Nader Tehrani