AD Interviews: Nader Tehrani, Office dA

During the 2009 AIA Convention I had the chance to attend a lecture by Nader Tehrani, after which I conducted this interview. He is one of the founders of the Boston based practice Office dA, with Monica Ponce de Leon.

Nader, who is also an associate professor at the MIT School of Architecture + Planning, has done an interesting research on the logic of materials, producing contemporary forms that are the result of new interpretations and building techniques, rather than just simple formal explorations.

I really like the “thinking” behind Office dA, which has allowed them to move from furniture up to the urban scale, resolving the specific issues of each scale with a similar logic.

I think that good examples of this are the Helios House for BP and the MacAllen building recently featured at AD.

From what I saw on Nader’s presentation, it looks like we are going to see more from Office dA in the near future.

Interview available in High Definition at Vimeo.