Shadi Nazarian
Clinical Associate Professor
office : Hayes Hall 312B
phone : 716 829 3485 x 314
e-mail : nazarian@buffalo.edu
Shadi Nazarian, Clinical Associate Professor in the department of architecture at UB holds a post-professional degree in architecture with a minor in theory of architecture from Cornell University, as well as a Bachelor of Architecture, and a Bachelor of Environmental Design, both from the University of Minnesota. Her current research concentrates on critical readings of space, emerging materials and technologies, particularly light emitting fibers and polymers that provide alternative readings of surfaces and spaces. Her work incorporates observers as active and ambulatory participants who respond to and interact with their material and perceptual environment and is made public through experimental practice, producing rhetorical artifacts, spaces and infrastructures that are publicly exhibited.
She authored Future of Permanence: Re-learning from Las Vegas, and most recently she has been the recipient of New York State Council on the Arts' (NYSCA) Individual Artist Award in the category of Media and New Technology; New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, the NYFA Strategic Opportunity Stipend, as well as a NYFA fellowship. Her work has been recognized and published internationally by publications such as Wallpaper, ACADIA Quarterly, architektur aktuell, l'ARCA, and Landscape Architecture among others.
