Reiser + Umemoto - RUR Architecture
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Taipei Pop Music Center
Pop music, while a global phenomenon, is regional in its definition. The Taiwanese Pop music scene typifies the phenomenon; while it crosses borders and... |
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Shenzhen International Airport (Terminal 3)
Shenzhen stands at a crossroads. Already with an unsurpassable technology sector fueling the economic engine of China, the next great leap will be in ideas and... |
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Sagaponac House
Integrative strategy: Located on a two acre wooded site within a subdivision, the house design addresses the synthesis of two potentially antagonistic... |
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Aeon
Aeon is a complex that while comprised of the traditional components of office towers, hotel, residences, and retail, it is not reducible to those elements... |
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O-14 Commercial Tower
O-14, a 22-story tall commercial tower perched on a two-story podium, broke ground in February 2007, and comprises over 300,000 square feet of office space for... |
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New Museum
Integrative strategy: The design of the New Museum represents a unique opportunity to implement a fundamentally new museum typology. We propose a new museum... |
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Business Bay - Phase 3 Master Plan
Dubai is going through an unprecedented phase of urbanization and growth. Unfortunately, the majority of urban design initiatives stem from imported models... |
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Alishan Tourist Routes
Taiwan is at a crossroads, culturally and architecturally. As the nation itself transforms from a legacy of industrialization and low-cost construction to a... |
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Aeon (II)
With our Jumeriah Lake “Aeon” project, the prominent L-shaped site and the background of closely spaced towers offer truly unique opportunity to rethink... |
Brief description
Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto have practiced in New York City as Reiser + Umemoto, RUR Architecture P.C. since 1986. Jesse Reiser is currently an Associate Professor of Architecture at Princeton University. Nanako Umemoto is currently a Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and leads a yearly design workshop at Hong Kong University. Reiser + Umemoto, RUR Architecture P.C., an internationally recognized architectural firm, has built projects at a wide range of scales: from furniture design, to residential and commercial structures, up to the scale of landscape design and infrastructure. The firm approaches each project as the continuation of an ongoing inquiry, delving into relationships among architecture, territory and systems of distribution. By working on projects of varying scales, from the architectural to the regional, the firm has developed flexible strategies and techniques that seek to open structures that are now ossified and to integrate domains that historically have been kept apart.
Jesse Reiser received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the Cooper Union in New York and completed his Masters of Architecture at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, and in 1985, was appointed as a fellow of the American Academy in Rome. Architect and Landscape Architect Nanako Umemoto graduated from Cooper Union following her studies at the School of Urban Design at the Osaka University of Art. In addition to teaching together at Columbia University, they have individually taught and lectured at various educational and cultural institutions throughout the United States, Europe and Asia, and their work has been widely published and exhibited for over 20 years. The firm was awarded the Chrysler Award for Excellence in Design in 1999, the Academy Award in Architecture by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2000, and in May 2008, Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto were awarded the Presidential Citation from President George Campbell of the Cooper Union for outstanding practical and theoretical contributions to the field of Architecture.
Principals
- Jesse Reiser
- Nanako Umemoto
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