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Nader Tehrani is the Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union in New York. Tehrani is also Principal of NADAAA, a practice dedicated to the advancement of design innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and an intensive dialogue with the construction industry. He was previously a professor of architecture at MIT, where he served as Head of the Department from 2010-2014. Tehrani’s work has been recognized with notable awards, including the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture (2007), the United States Artists Fellowship in Architecture and Design, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture. He has also received the Harleston Parker Award for the Northeastern University Multi-faith Spiritual Center and the Hobson Award for the Georgia Institute of Technology Hinman Research Building. Throughout his career, Tehrani has received eighteen Progressive Architecture Awards as well as numerous AIA, BSA and ID awards. Over the past six years, NADAAA has consistently ranked as a top design firm in Architect Magazine's Top 50 U.S. Firms List. He served as the Frank O. Gehry International Visiting Chair in Architectural Design at the University of Toronto and is currently the inaugural Paul Helmle Fellow at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He also recently served as the William A. Bernoudy Architect in Residence at the American Academy in Rome.

Ángel Verdasco Arquitectos is an architectural studio dedicated to the development of projects, investigation and teaching. The studio focuses on understanding architecture as a multifaceted tool capable of mediating, resolving and channelling social, technical and cultural aspects relevant to every project. Developing a unique kind of architecture. Architecture as a strategic operation that connects people, identities, programmes and territories. The studio’s has obtained various first prizes in architectural competitions like Auditorium Theatre (Guadalajara), Centre of Water and Irrigation (Huesca), Landscape Area in the Tajo River (Teruel) or the restructuring of the Central Market (Melilla). The team’s construction work has been awarded in the XIV and VII Bienal of Spanish Architecture, FAD Prizes, First Anthological Prize of Castilla-La Mancha and the Prize for Architecture Castilla-La Mancha. The works has been widely published (Casabella and Gallery of El Croquis, amongst others). The Official Architects Association of Madrid (COAM) dedicated an Exhibition and a Monograph “Á.Verdasco.A Grammar of Landscape”. Ángel Verdasco directs the studio. Phd Architecture ETSAMadrid with highest qualifications. Associate Professor of Architectural Projects (School of Architecture of Alcalá de Henares. Madrid). He had participated in international lectures, seminars and biennials. He wrote two books about the organicist architect Curro Inza.