AN INTERVIEW WITH NADER ARDALAN

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ARCHITECTURE & URBANISM OF NADER ARDALAN

AN INTERVIEW WITH NADER ARDALAN

Watch an inspiring and thought-provoking conversation with architect, urbanist and author Nader Ardalan, where he shares his research on sustainable and transcendent dimension of architecture influencing his pedagogy, writings and designs.

part 1:

February 12, 2023

11 am ET USA,

8 pm Dubai UAE

link: https://us05web.zoom.us/j/81950876546?pwd=OVFMOWQ1cVY1L09XWEdPN2RDU3YzUT09

part 2:

February 12, 2023

11:45 am ET USA,

8:45 pm Dubai UAE

link: https://us05web.zoom.us/j/85265838357?pwd=cy9FdUl1TzlGTHdnSHBvQ0ZLekxNZz09

NADER ARDALAN

Nader Ardalan, is President of Ardalan Associates, Consultants in Architecture. He holds a B.Arch from Carnegie-Mellon University and M.Arch from the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University.

There he served as Senior Research Associate and co-editor for Persian Gulf Encyclopedia for Sustainable Urbanism and author of Blessed Jerusalem. He is co-author of The Sense of Unity (1973); The New Arab Urbanism in the Persian Gulf (2011); and other publications. He has been a Visiting Professor at Harvard, Yale, MIT and Tehran University. He was a founding member of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture Steering Committee, and has served on the advisory boards of 2A Architecture & Art Magazine and the International Journal of Islamic Architecture. He is currently on the board of Directors of the Architecture, Culture & Spirituality Forum.   

The interview will be made by:

AHMAD ZOHADI

• Chief Editor & Publisher of 2A Magazine

• 2A Theorician, Researcher and Strategist

• Founder & Head of Organizing Committee of 2A Institute of Architecture & Art, Center of Paragon City and the other 2A Activities

NOOSHIN ESMAEILI

Architect, AAA, LEED Green Associate, PH.D Candidate at the University of Calgary

Chair of Canada Graduate Student Committee SSHRC Grant University of Calgary