Join us for an evening with Nader Tehrani, principal of NADAAA, as he shares the design vision behind the BSA’s new home at 99 Chauncy Street. This gathering offers an early look at the ideas shaping the BSA’s next chapter, as we imagine a space that brings architects, designers, and the public into closer dialogue around the built environment.

BSA Executive Director Danyson Tavares will begin with a brief overview of the architect selection process and what distinguished NADAAA’s approach, followed by a presentation from Nader Tehrani on the project’s conceptual direction. BSA Deputy Director Paige Johnston will then lead a moderated conversation with Nader and Danyson, including audience Q&A, creating space for members to engage directly with the thinking behind the new space and share their perspectives.

Come early and stay after to connect with fellow members over light refreshments. This is a chance to hear firsthand how the BSA is shaping a more visible, civic-facing home and to be part of the conversation as it takes form.

About Nader Tehrani

For his “contributions to architecture as an art”, Nader Tehrani is the recipient of The American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Arnold 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 Sciences, the National Academy of Design, and recipient of the Design Visionary Award from the Cooper Hewitt-Smithsonian Design Museum. Tehrani is the Founding Principal of NADAAA, an interdisciplinary practice with works across scales from infrastructure to urbanism, architecture, and installations. The former Head of the Department of Architecture at MIT (2010-14), Tehrani 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 Nasher Sculpture Center and the Canadian Centre for Architecture.