Projects and Their Consequences
Jesse Reiser is a principal of RUR Architecture DPC in New York and a Professor of
Architecture at Princeton University. Founded with Nanako Umemoto, Reiser + Umemoto,
RUR Architecture, is an internationally recognized multidisciplinary design firm, which 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.
Reiser will give an account of a series of ongoing projects in the office from conception to
realization, and present a manifesto of sorts, as he delves into the complex interrelationships
their architecture weaves between technology, expression, and politics in the context of the ‘nowhere place’ of the global city. He will propose an alternate understanding of the
architectural project as it spans across firms or subsists within one firm’s oeuvre. The lecture
will examine the firm’s two ongoing projects in Taiwan: the Taipei Pop Music Center and the
Kaohsiung Port Terminal.
