Nader Tehrani is the recipient of The American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Brunner Memorial Prize, has received nineteen Progressive Architecture Awards, and is also a recipient of the Design Visionary Award from the Cooper Hewitt. Tehrani is the Founding Principal of NADAAA, an interdisciplinary practice with works in infrastructure, urbanism, architecture, and installations. Nader has served as Department Head of Architecture at MIT and was also Dean of the School of Architecture at The Cooper Union. Design excellence is core to the firm’s pursuits, which also has earned four American Architecture Awards, four Chicago Athenaeum Awards, and an AIA Cote Top Ten Award. NADAAA consistently places among the top design firms in Architect Magazine’s annual ranking of US design firms and has been selected as top firm three years in a row. Tehrani spoke for The Forum on November 6, 2025.
