Shohei shigematsu biography of rory

Shohei Shigematsu is an anomaly in the OMA-verse.

Over the years, dozens of articles have chronicled the exodus of OMA-trained talents who chose to strike out on their own, emerging from the shadow of iconic king and queenmaker Rem Koolhaas.

Shigematsu is not one of them. 

The now 51-year-old embarked on his OMA orbit in 1998 in the Rotterdam office.

Shohei shigematsu biography of rory

By 2006, Koolhaas had tapped him to run a skeletal office in New York. Two years later, he became a partner (thus the designation OMA/Shohei Shigematsu). The studio's first decade operated in fits and starts, while its second cemented Shigematsu’s name as an architectural powerhouse—fleshing out a wide-ranging portfolio of built work, including a skyscraper in Tokyo, a museum addition in Quebec, and a Park Avenue Armory collaboration with artist Taryn Simon.

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