Redifining the boundaries of architectural practice
In the current context of complex urban mutations, the architectural approach to the city must be completely revisited. Architects cannot base themselves on their own knowledge and their obsession for form anymore, but must gather, digest and confront the knowledge and methods from a large number of fields. This entails a radical shift in both culture and education. The director of MIT’s school of architecture, Nader Tehrani, presents his work on revamping the syllabus, which he has designed to foster interactions, collaboration and cross-disciplinarity. According to him, these are crucial aspects of the architecture of the cities of tomorrow, which he created the Center for Advanced Urbanism to investigate. Nader Tehrani is an architect and director of the NADAAA design firm. He teaches at the MIT, where he was the director of the architecture department from 2010 to 2014.
