Ryerson University's Department of Architectural Science is kicking off its 2015-2016 lecture series this Thursday, September 24, with a lecture from Nasrine Seraji of Paris-based firm Atelier Seraji Architectes et Associés (ASAA), to be held at 6:30 PM in The Pit (ARC 202), at 325 Church Street.
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Seraji has participated in lectures and exhibitions worldwide, working in Europe and North America, as well as China and South East Asia. She has taken on several educational roles throughout her career, teaching at Columbia University in New York between 1993 and 2001, at the Architectural Association in London as Diploma Unit Master, and Princeton University as Visiting Professor. She then served as Professor and Chair of the Department of Architecture at Cornell University from 2001 to 2005, before assuming the role of Dean of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais the following year. Also in 2006, Seraji served as Professor of Ecology, Sustainability and Conservation, as well as Head of the Institute for Art and Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In January 2014, she was appointed centennial visiting professor of design at Hong Kong University.
Seraji has overseen a number of acclaimed projects, including the award-winning Temporary American Centre in Paris. Two of her projects, a student housing development in Paris and an extension to the School of Architecture in Lille, were nominees for the Mies Van der Rohe Prize. Seraji has received numerous awards for her work, including the medal for Chevalier des Arts et des Letters from the Minister of Culture in France in 2006 for her role as an architect contributing to excellence in art and humanities. In 2008, she was awarded both the medal of Chevalier dans l’Ordre National du Mérite by Presidential decree, and the Medaille d’Argent by the French Academy of Architecture for her contribution to academic endeavours in architecture. Some of her most recent awards include a July 2011 Chevalier de l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur, and last year's prize of Mention de l’Équerre d’Argent.
Current projects from Nasrine Seraji and Atelier Seraji Architectes et Associés includes a new complex for the Paris Transportation Authority comprised of 212 housing units and a bus depot, competitions for student housing and affordable housing, and large scale planning projects in the French cities of le Rheu, and Pau.
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