About Ardalan Associates

Inaugurated originally in 1979 in Boston, ARDALAN ASSOCIATES, LLC, Consultants in Architecture, offers explicit, world recognized expertise in applied sustainable, environmentally adaptive and culturally sensitive planning and design within a market driven context.

As President of the firm, Nader Ardalan is an architect with over four decades of award winning international experience. He has served as Principal-in-charge of International Design and Operations at Jung/Brannen Associates of Boston from 1983 to 1994. This was followed from 1994 to 2006 as Senior Vice President and Director of Design at KEO International Consultants, a leading multi-disciplinary firm of over 1300 staff located in the Persian Gulf Region. He has been a founding member of the Steering Committee of the prestigious Aga Khan Award for Architecture and continues to serve as a Jury Member on many international design competitions. He is also an author and teacher who has been written about in professional journals and publications including Newsweek, Architectural Review, National Geographic, Contemporary Architects and Who’s Who in the World. He is a registered consultant with the World Bank and a member of a number of professional societies internationally. As of September, 2006, he is a Fellow of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University.

ARDALAN ASSOCIATES, LLC is an independent design consultancy that brings to the marketplace an innovative architectural practice model based upon miniaturization.The firm has the capability of offering a high quality network of innovative designers and engineers located throughout the world that complement and digitally interact in a creative, effective, flexible and cost effective manner with Nader Ardalan.

The firm is structured to carry out design services or advisory services to help enhance the decision making process and productivity of government authorities, development companies and other professional firms.

“The quest is to perceive, express and manifest excellence in sustainable built environments.”