Monday, November 4, 2013 | 6:30 pm
Perloff Hall, Decafe, UCLA campus
Shohei Shigematsu
Partner and Director of OMA New York
OMA is a leading international partnership practicing architecture, urbanism, and cultural analysis. OMA recently won the competition to design a mixed-use development in the heart of downtown Santa Monica.
OMA is a leading international partnership practicing architecture, urbanism, and cultural analysis. OMA’s buildings and masterplans around the world insist on intelligent forms while inventing new possibilities for content and everyday use.
Sho is a Partner and the Director of OMA New York. He has overseen the completion of Milstein Hall at Cornell University, as well as the construction of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. Mr. Shigematsu is currently leading the design of the Marina Abramovic Institute for the Preservation of Performance Art in upstate New York, the Miami Beach Convention Center and a mixed use complex in Santa Monica. Having led the team that won the CCTV Headquarters design competition in Beijing, he served as project architect until the end of design development. Mr. Shigematsu also directed OMA’s winning competition entry for the Shenzhen Stock Exchange Headquarters. He is a visiting faculty member at Harvard University, Columbia University and Cornell University.
Perloff Hall is located on the UCLA Campus.
Perloff Hall, M-F, 9am – 5pm
Info: 310.267.4704
Lectures take place at 6:30pm in Perloff Hall Decafé (unless otherwise indicated)
Parking is available in Lot 3 for $12, purchase parking at the Westholme Ave and Hilgard Ave kiosk.
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