Nader Tehrani, Jonathan Tate among 2020 American Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award Winners
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 CoxBade Stageberg Cox The New York City-based firm Bad...
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.
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.
The New York City-based firm Bad...
