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Professor Nader Ardalan

HARVARD UNIVERSITY ,

President of Ardalan Associates,USA

Nader Ardalan, President of Ardalan Associates, is an architect of international recognition, awarded for his ecologically sensitive and culturally relevant design approach.  He holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Carnegie-Mellon University and a Masters in Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design.  He is currently a Research Fellow of Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, where he directs the Gulf Research Project on Sustainable Cities and is Project Director of the New Arab Urbanism in the Gulf , a research grant awarded by Harvard Kennedy School.

He led international design and operations at Boston’s Jung/Brannen Associates (1983-94. He then served for twelve years as Director of Design at KEO International Consultants in the Gulf Region. He was a founding member of the Steering Committee of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.  He is the co-author of "The Sense of Unity", published by Chicago University Press and several other publications and lectures internationally.