Nader Tehrani, Jonathan Tate among 2020 American Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award Winners

2020-04-23T13:24:00-04:00

The American Academy of Arts and Letters has announced the recipients of its 2020 architecture awards.

The four winning designers were selected from a pool of 34 applications, according to the Academy website, and were vetted by a jury chaired by Annabelle Selldorf that also included Peter Eisenman, Steven Holl, James Polshek, Billie Tsien, and Tod Williams.

The academy’s four prizes will bring $10,000 in funding each to five designers and architectural thinkers who seek to push architecture into new realms of creativity and exploration.

The Macallen Building in Boston by NADAAA.

Nader Tehrani

Tehrani, who is principal of Boston-based NADAAA and is also the dean of Cooper Union’s Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, was awarded for “significant contribution to architecture as an art.” Previously published on Archinect: Nader Tehrani on Thesis and Its History at Cooper Union.

Casa de Sombre. Image courtesy of Bade Stageberg Cox

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Foster + Partners to design new boathouse for NYC's underserved communities

2018-07-18T14:32:00-04:00

Row New York announced [...] that award-winning architecture firm Foster + Partners will design a new boathouse and flagship location for the nonprofit organization, which offers a competitive rowing and academic success program to students from underserved communities throughout New York City. The new 14,000-square- foot facility is being designed pro bono by Foster + Partners in association with Bade Stageberg Cox [...].

"Located on the Harlem River in northern Manhattan, the new boathouse will allow Row New York to dramatically expand its youth program for middle and high school students from New York’s most underserved schools and will feature a learning center with two state-of-the-art classrooms to accommodate the organization’s academic programs," reads the announcement from nonprofit Row New York.

"It will also broaden community access to the waterfront, with five boat bays that can accommodate up to 60 boats, community programming, and kayaks for public use. Designs for the boathouse, which are going through an approval process with NYC Parks and the Public Design Commission, are expected to be unveiled in fall 2018."

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Nader Tehrani, Jonathan Tate among 2020 American Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award Winners

Foster + Partners to design new boathouse for NYC's underserved communities