(USA) After studying in Japan and the United States (Cornell University, and Columbia University, in New York), Taeg Nishimoto set up his agency in New York, in 1989. He also teaches at Columbia University. Nishimoto has produced many installations (RE-f(r)action), where curved wooden arcs, kept taut by wires, transform the tectonic space into an energy field that is being continually reactivated. Nishimoto's constructed architecture is a phenomenological approach to space and materials, forms and functions, between which he does not shrink from setting up a contradictory relationship. Nishimoto is constantly raising questions about architecture's operational modes. The "Plot House" project, which will be shown for the very first time in its entirety, is a kind of hypertext, a composite body of architecture, architectural criticism, literature, philosophy and "suspense". This project, which encapsulates Nishimoto's total approach, is also a narrative about the process of creating housing.

Taeg Nishimoto + Allied Architects
Nishimoto (Taeg) (1955)
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• Plot Houses 1992-2000