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Cooper Faculty and Alumni on AN Top 50 List

POSTED ON: March 12, 2018

Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design – University of Toronto. © John Horner.

Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design – University of Toronto. © John Horner.

Dean Nader Terhani’s firm, NADAAA, has recently been named one of the top 50 interior architects in The Architects Newspaper’s inaugural list. In addition to NADAAA, the list also acknowledges the work of Cooper alumni Toshiko Mori (AR’76); Snarkitecture (Daniel Arsham, A’03 and Alex Mustonen, AR’05); Alexander Gorlin (AR’78); and School of Architecture faculty member Benjamin Aranda, of Aranda/Lasch.

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