An initial factor that possibly hallmarks the approach adopted by Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto, and sets them apart from those other--numerous--approaches which turn their back on efficiency-above-all-else architectural design and discipline, is their refusal to bury modernism, in spite of its failures. They accordingly prefer to work on a new and extended notion of what architecture might become, making the most of applications of complex scientific models, in quest of adequate paradigms in the development of the project. By broaching the hierarchies of scale and organization of architecture not as given and separate, but rather as rigorously connected and co-dependent in accordance with complex and differentiated protocols, Reiser and Umemoto formulate a flexible architecture, like this house at Sagaponac in New York State, which is capable of creating a specific order, and thus augmenting its capacities of incorporation, combining a concern with cross-disciplinary "interconnectivity" shifting the strict boundaries between the defined scales of construction (interior, building, urban, region). They have been working in New York since 1984.	(USA)
	Reiser + Umemoto Reiser (Jesse) (1958), Umemoto (Nanako) (1959)
	• House at Sagaponac en cours de réalisation