Aspen Art Museum Architecture Lecture Series with Nader Tehrani

March 10, 2008

The Aspen Art Museum is proud to announce an illustrated slide lecture with renowned architect Nader Tehrani as the first of four 2008 AAM Architecture Lecture Series events to be held at The Aspen Institute. Tehrani’s presentation will take place Thursday, March 13, 2008, at The Institute’s Paepcke Auditorium from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Hosted in collaboration with the Aspen Institute and the City of Aspen Community Development Department, the AAM Architecture Lecture Series brings world-renowned architects to Aspen to discuss the role of public architecture in our society, and how its form, style, a nd purpose impact our engineered landscapes. Future 2008 ALS participants will be announced as scheduling is confirmed.

Nader Tehrani received his Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor in Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design and his Masters of Architecture in Urban Design from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. A tenured Associate Professor of Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he has also taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Rhode Island School of Design, and Georgia Institute of Technology. Tehrani is a principal at the Boston-based architectural firm Office dA, which has received numerous international awards, including the coveted Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Award for Architecture. Office dA has also worked on such projects as the Tongxian Arts Center in Beijing, the Elemental community project in Chile, and the Villa Moda Competition in Kuwait.

2007’s inaugural Aspen Art Museum Architecture Lecture Series debuted March 7, 2007 with a lecture by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, founder and President of Tokyo-based Kengo Kuma and Associates. The series continued with speaker Richard Gluckman (Gluckman Mayner Architects), followed by a lecture held in conjunction with the Aspen Ideas Festival on Thursday, July 5, featuring Elizabeth Diller of New York’s Diller, Scofidio + Renfro. The 2007 series concluded with a presentation by architect Winy Maas, principal of the Rotterdam architectural firm MVRDV, Friday, August 17, 2007.

All AAM Architecture Lecture Series events are free and open to the public, and are held at the Aspen Institute’s Paepcke Auditorium, located at 1000 North 3rd Street, Aspen.

The Architecture Lecture Series is underwritten by Judith Neisser, Jan and Ronnie Greenberg, the City of Aspen Community Development Department, and the Aspen Institute.

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