Arriscraft Lecture: Jesse Reiser

Projection and Reception

Jesse Reiser received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the Cooper Union in New York and completed his Masters of Architecture at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He was a fellow of the American Academy in Rome in 1985 and he worked for the offices of John Hejduk and Aldo Rossi prior to forming Reiser + Umemoto, RUR Architecture PC with partner, Nanako Umemoto. RUR is now an internationally recognized multidisciplinary architectural design firm that has built projects at a wide range of scales: from furniture design, to residential and commercial structures, up to the scale of landscape, urban design, and infrastructure. The firm has recently won two major international competitions: the Taipei Pop Music Center and the Kaohsiung Port Terminal, both currently under construction. O-14, a 22-story exoskeletal office tower, was completed in 2011 in Dubai and has received numerous international honors. A comprehensive monograph of the project, O-14: Projection and Reception, was published by AA Publications in 2012.