Shohei Shigematsu is an architect and partner at OMA, leading the firm’s New York office and its portfolio in the Americas and Japan. He joined OMA in 1998 and became a partner in 2008. Shigematsu has delivered several cultural projects across North America, including Sotheby’s New York headquarters, the Quebec National Museum, and the Faena Forum in Miami Beach. Other cultural engagements include an expansion of the New Museum and extension of Buffalo’s Albright-Knox Art Museum. Shigematsu has designed exhibitions for Prada, the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and more. He’s leading the design of University of Illinois-Chicago’s Center for the Arts and a new hub for Discovery Partners Institute in Chicago, as well as overseeing construction of OMA’s Japan projects.
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