AIA Japan - Search Term with Shohei Shigematsu
When: Friday 19 November 2021 @ 20:00 (Eastern US Time)/ Saturday 20 November 2021 @ 10:00 (Japan time)
CES Credits - TBC
Speakers:
Shohei Shigematsu, Partner, OMA
Description
Shohei Shigematsu will talk about his recent work, architecture diversity. This is AIA Japan`s penultimate lecture of the year.
Speaker Bio
Shohei Shigematsu is a Partner of OMA and the Director of its New York office. Sho was born in 1973 in Fukuoka. After graduating from the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering of Kyushu University, he moved to the Netherlands to join OMA in 1998. Since joining, he was appointed as Director of OMA New York in 2006 and became a Partner in 2008.
He has recently completed the Audrey Irmas Pavilion for a historic Jewish Temple in Los Angeles, the renovation of Sotheby’s New York headquarters, luxury high-rise towers in San Francisco and Miami, and OMA’s first ground-up building in New York City, a residential complex at 121 East 22nd Street. Sho has successfully completed designs for cultural venues including the Quebec National Beaux Arts Museum and the Faena Arts Center in Miami Beach. Currently in progress are the expansion of Buffalo’s Albright-Knox-Gundlach Art Museum, a new building for the New Museum in New York, and an underwater sculpture park in Miami Beach. Sho has also designed exhibitions for Prada, the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Park Avenue Armory, and Dior’s first US retrospective. His urban and public space designs include an integrated mixed-use village masterplan for Facebook in Menlo Park and a post-Hurricane Sandy urban water strategy for New Jersey.
He oversees OMA’s projects in Japan, including Coach’s Omotesando flagship, a newly completed Tenjin Business Center in Fukuoka (2021) and Toranomon Hills Station Tower, mixed-use high-rise in Tokyo for Mori Building Co, Ltd. (2023). Sho has been a visiting professor at Cornell University Graduate School of Architecture (AAP), Columbia University GSAPP and Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) and now since 2021, he was appointed as Professor at Human Environment Studies, and Director of Built Environment Center with Art & Technology (BeCAT), Kyushu University.
