Architect Nader Tehrani answers Curbed’s 21Questions
What’s the first job you had in New York?
I worked for an architecture firm in Williamsburg in the early ’80s. They mostly did historic preservation and I was focused on learning how to do copper flashing on neo-Gothic churches in Manhattan. I can’t remember the name of the firm, but I found the job in an ad when I was still at RISD. I applied, they said come in, I rode the train down and took the job immediately.I gravitate toward the blues: lapis lazuli or turquoise. It’s kind of a cliché of being Iranian.
I’ll run eight miles around Central Park. And if it’s a bigger problem, I’ll pack my bags, go to an unfamiliar place, and come back in three weeks.I sublet a friend’s place on the border of Little Italy and Chinatown the same summer that I had the internship in Williamsburg. It was a shotgun apartment with a bathtub in the kitchen and a toilet in the hall that we shared with other people on the floor. I paid around $130.
I was given a punch list of things to do to achieve tenure: attend this amount of conferences, touch base with this faculty and that faculty. Being the accidental academic that I am, the best-kept secret is to have done things that are preciselyWhat have you given away to someone that you wish you could get back?What’s your favorite NYC restaurant and regular order?
I have many, unfortunately: the scrambled eggs and onions at Barney Greengrass, the olive-oil cake at Abraço, the steak-frites at Lucien.I try not to obsess over narrative, which frees me up to have someone else worry about my obituary.
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