NDA Roundup (Part II): Politically Speaking

It wouldn’t be an awards ceremony without some subtle political jabs, and last Thursday’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards gala didn’t disappoint. Richard Gluckman presented the NDA for architecture design to Monica Ponce de Leon and Nader Tehrani (pictured at right), the founding partners of Boston-based Office dA (whose Villa Moda we still can’t stop talking about). In accepting the award, Tehrani alluded to his July visit to the White House for an event that recognized the 2007 NDA winners.