Nanako Umemoto

Nanako Umemoto is a principal of RUR Architecture. She earned her Bachelor of Architecture from the Cooper Union in New York in 1983, following studies at the School of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture at the Osaka University of Art. She has taught at various schools in the United States, Europe, and Asia, including Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, EPFL in Lausanne Switzerland, Hong Kong University, Kyoto University, and the Cooper Union, and has lectured widely at various educational and cultural institutions throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. Recently, she co-published a comprehensive monograph, Projects and Their Consequences, which traces thirty years of RUR’s innovative multidisciplinary investigations of form, structure, technique, and planning.