BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Spring 2026 U-SoA Tecnoglass Lecture by Nader Tehrani of NADAA A and Cooper Union X-WR-TIMEZONE:Eastern Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260607T175219Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52179580347630 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260401 DESCRIPTION:Join us for a lecture by Nader Tehrani of NADAAA / Cooper Union \; part of the Spring 2026 University of Miami School of Architecture Tecn oglass Lecture Series\, Mixtape. U-SoA revisits highlights from the last d ecade with speakers re-invited for an update on recent work and to discuss change/career trajectories in a rapidly transforming world.\n\n \n\n"The Sixth Elevation"\n\nOf the many contemporary architectural challenges\, th e reflected ceiling plan is possibly the most overlooked. If historic arch itectures of the 19th century and eras prior celebrated the sublime capaci ty of domes to emit light and spaces of imagination\, the contemporary cei ling conversely needs to attend to the entanglement of building systems\, fire suppressions mechanisms\, lighting\, acoustic mitigation\, and variou s other services. If these systems were conventionally housed in the ‘po ché’ zones of the building\, the reflected ceiling plan of today stands to overcome some of the most complex of architectural traffic jams. If t he main aim of ceding design was to coordinate the complexity of building systems\, then the task would be simple enough\, but this talk seeks to th e draw out the capacity of these ceilings to transcend the terms problem s olving: to transform the spaces of architectural systems\, creating someth ing larger than the sum of their parts.\n\n \n\nDue to weather conditions\ , this lecture\, originally scheduled for Wednesday\, February 26\, has be en postponed to Wednesday\, April 1\, 2026.\n\n \n\n6:00 pm Reception - Jo rge M\, Perez Architecture Center\, Thomas F. Daly Loggia\n\n6:30 pm Lectu re - Jorge M\, Perez Architecture Center\, Stanley and Jewell Glasgow Lect ure Hall\n\nfollowed by a discussion with Dean Rodolphe el-Khoury\n\n \n\n Join Zoom Meeting\n\nhttps://miami.zoom.us/j/91070896997\n\nMeeting ID: 91 0 7089 6997\n\n \n\nNader Tehrani\, Principal\, NADAAA + Professor\, Coope r Union\nFor his “contributions to architecture as an art”\, Nader Teh rani is the recipient of The American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Arnol d W. Brunner Memorial Prize\, the highest form of recognition of artistic merit in the United States. With nineteen Progressive Architecture Awards\ , he is also an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Science s\, the National Academy of Design\, and recipient of the Design Visionary Award from the Cooper Hewitt-Smithsonian Design Museum. Tehrani is the Fo unding Principal of NADAAA\, an interdisciplinary practice with works acro ss scales from infrastructure to urbanism\, architecture\, and installatio ns. The former Head of the Department of Architecture at MIT (2010-14)\, T ehrani was also Dean of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union (2015-22). Widely exhibited at MOMA\, LA MOCA and the Venice Biennale\, NADAAA’s work is also in the permanent collections of the Nas her Sculpture Center and the Canadian Centre for Architecture.\n\n \n\nDOW NLOAD POSTER GEO:25.716908;-80.278875 LOCATION:Perez Arch Center\, Glasgow Hall SUMMARY:Spring 2026 U-SoA Tecnoglass Lecture by Nader Tehrani of NADAAA and Cooper Union URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.miami.edu/event/spring-2026-u-soa-tecnoglass-l ecture-by-nader-tehrani CATEGORIES:Lecture/Conference END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR