SHOHEI SHIGEMATSU: 'MILSTEIN HALL AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY'

Welcome to the public events programme of the KTH-A and an open guest lecture by Shohei Shigematsu, partner at OMA and Director of the firm's New York office. As part of the KTH-A's ongoing lectures series on architecture and pedagogy, Shigematsu is invited to present Milstein Hall, OMA's project for Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP) in upstate New York. SHOHEI SHIGEMATSU Shohei Shigematsu joined OMA in 1998 and became a partner in 2008. He has led the office in New York since 2006. Sho's designs for cultural venues include the Quebec National Beaux Arts Museum and the Faena Arts Center in Miami Beach, as well as direct collaborations with artists, including Cai Guo Qiang, Marina Abramovic and Kanye West. Sho is currently designing a number of luxury, high rise towers in San Francisco, New York, and Miami, as well as a mixed-use complex in Santa Monica. His engagement with urban conditions around the world include a new civic center in Bogota, Colombia; a post-Hurricane Sandy, urban water strategy for New Jersey; and a food hub in Louisville, Kentucky. He is a design critic at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he is conducting a research studio entitled Alimentary Design, investigating the intersection of food, architecture and urbanism. Introduction by Björn Ehrlemark -- Recorded at the KTH School of Architecture on Feb 10, 2016. For information about upcoming public events, lectures and exhibitions, please visit or website our social media outlets: www.arch.kth.se twitter.com/KTH_A facebook.com/KTHArkitektur --