Exhibition Lecture | One to One | 1:1

Wednesday, March 4, 2020, 6:30 - 8:30pm

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Ja Architecture Studio is a Toronto based architecture practice that tries to combine the rootedness of a local architecture firm with the openness of a design studio invested in larger questions of the discipline, mainly the relationship between geometry and typology explored through the constraints of construction.

The team of architects, designers, and students has achieved a repertoire of built works, research projects, and award-winning competition entries. The latter includes fourth prize in the International Competition for the Bauhaus Museum in Dessau; honorable mentions for their entries to both the Guggenheim Helsinki Competition and the International Competition for the Kaunas Concert Center; and two Canadian Architects Awards.

Principals Nima Javidi and Behnaz Assadi hold teaching positions at the University of Toronto in both the Master of architecture and Landscape Architecture programs. Nima Javidi also teaches at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union.

This event is open to current Cooper Union students, faculty, and staff. Room 315F. 

Located at 7 East 7th Street, between Third and Fourth Avenues

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