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NADAAA is a Boston-based architecture and urban design firm led by principal designer Nader Tehrani, in collaboration with Arthur Chang. NADAAA is a platform for design investigation at a large scale and with a great geographic reach. NADAAA's projects range in scale from furniture to architecture and urban design, with a focus on craft, construction, and digital fabrication. As the founding principal of Office dA and NADAAA, Nader Tehrani has directed over twenty-five years of intensive design research, and has been widely published and exhibited, receiving numerous awards. The office has completed the first LEED gold certified, multi-family housing building in Boston, the Macallen Building, and the first leed rated gas station in the united states, Helios House. The firm has received the cooper-hewitt national design award in architecture, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award, the Harleston Parker award, the Hobson award, numerous AIA awards, and 18 Progressive Architecture awards. The work has been exhibited at institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, the Boston Institute of Contemporary art and LA MoCA, and is part of the permanent exhibit at the Nasher and the CCA. Tehrani is professor of architecture at mit, where he served as the head of the department from 2010-2014. For the past five years in a row NADAAA has been ranked in the Top 3 design firms by Architect magazine's top 50 firms in the United States.