Nadia Zhiri, AIA, LEED AP, NCARB

Nadia Zhiri, leader of Treanor Architects’ student life design studio, has dedicated her career to the design of student life facilities. She believes in architecture’s ability to support and enhance the learning environment and has sponsored doctoral research on cause and effect relationships between residence hall environments and student success. She has spent the last year writing articles and speaking to groups about designing healthy residence halls and transforming dated residence halls into high-performance buildings that better support a school’s mission. Nadia’s designs have won such honors as the People’s Choice Award for Product Showcase at ACUHOI’s 21st Century Project and College Planning & Management’s grand prize for Education Design Showcase.