Nader Tehrani was selected as the recipient of the 2020 Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize, an award which is given "to an architect of any nationality who has made a significant contribution to architecture as an art." 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
Boston Society of Architects Hobson Award, the 2007 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture, the 2007
United States Artists, USA Target Fellows AD award, the 2002
American Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award, and the 2002
Harleston Parker Medal. 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.
Exhibitions Tehrani's research and installations have been exhibited in venues such as the
Museum of Modern Art in New York, the
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and at the
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. His work is also part of the permanent collection of the
Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas and the
Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal.
Lectures Tehrani has lectured widely at institutions including the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Harvard University,
Princeton University and the
Architectural Association School of Architecture. 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).
Articles He has authored several articles, including "Aggregation" and "Difficult Synthesis" in
Material Design: Informing Architecture through Materiality by Thomas Schroepfer. He also authored "Versioning: Connubial Reciprocities of Surface and Space" in
Architectural Design. He wrote the introduction to
The Work of Machado & Silvetti, 2018. He wrote the foreword to
Victor Lundy: Artist Architect, 2017. He wrote the preface to
Patkau Architects, 2017. His 'Tectonic Grain' lecture was published in Manifesto, 2017. He wrote "The Timeless Anachronism of Type" for Obra Architects Logic, 2016 and "Control, Realized" for The Architecture of WOJR. He contributed 'The Architectural Grain' to This Building Likes Me, 2016. In 2016 for
The Plan he wrote "A Disaggregated Manifesto: Thoughts on the Architectural Medium and its Realm of Instrumentality". His work has also been internationally reviewed and published in periodicals such as
Architect,
Architectural Record,
Icon,
Wallpaper,
Monitor,
The Plan,
Abitare,
Mark,
Frame,
I.D.,
Contract,
Archiworld, the
Boston Globe, the
Wall Street Journal, and the
New York Times, among others. ==Publications==