​​Amin Tadj, RA, NCARB,  

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Amin has nearly 17 years of experience leading the design and construction of various architectural projects. He has spent much of his career spearheading residential and cultural projects from concept through to the end of construction. His commitment to design quality and finding new ways of improving lives through it and his long experience dealing with the complexities of multi-stakeholder public and private projects have made him an instrumental leader in architecture and real estate investment.   

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As a senior associate at SO – IL, he led a 60,000-square-foot Art Campus in the East Village of Detroit and 154 unit residential development in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Before SO–IL, Amin was the senior designer and project manager at NADAAA, an award-winning Boston-based firm, from 2012 to 2022 and led various projects. His contributions include Adams Branch Library, the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design project for the University of Toronto, an Innovation Center for Saint-Gobain North America, and the Beacon Tower, a mixed-used building in Cleveland. 

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Amin received his Master's in Architecture from the University of Tehran and was a visitor scholar at MIT in 2011 and 2012. He started his professional life as the co-founder of VAVStudio in 2003, through which he designed and executed several institutional, commercial, and residential projects. His designs received several awards and recognitions, including the Me'mar Award for Residential Buildings (2003) and the Me'mar Award for Commercial and Public Buildings (2009). He also won the 1st Prize for the Isfahan Workshops & Laboratories (2005) and the 1st Prize for the international competition for the Tehran Stock Exchange in collaboration with Alejandro Aravena in 2012. His projects were showcased in several exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale 2016 and the Seoul Architectural Biennale 2017.