Shohei Shigematsu

Shohei Shigematsu leads New York-based OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture) and has been a driving force at the Rem Koolhaas-led firm since joining in 1998. A native of Japan, he now oversees OMA’s projects in North America, including such major cultural hubs as Milstein Hall at Cornell University in New York State, the National Beaux Arts Museum in Quebec City in Canada, the Faena Arts Center in Miami Beach, and the long-awaited extension to the New Museum in Manhattan. Shigematsu headed the design of the Park Grove development in collaboration with Terra, executing it with formal daring and sensitivity to the urban environment that surrounds it.

Shigematsu’s high-profile collaborations blur the line between architecture and art, as shown by a seven-screen pavilion in Cannes and New York City’s Marina Abramovic Institute for the Preservation of Performance Art. He has also repeatedly worked with the world’s foremost fashion houses, from Prada to Dior to Louis Vuitton, to imagine and realize creative installations and exhibitions for their spaces.