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Reiser + Umemoto, RUR Architecture P.C.

is a New York-based architecture firm founded in 1986 by Jesse Reiser ( M.Arch. 1984, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI) and Nanako Umemoto ( B.Arch. 1983, The Cooper Union, New York; B.A. in Urban Design and Landscape Design, Osaka University of Art, Japan). RUR have built projects of many scales, from furniture design to residential and commercial structures to landscape design. Most recently, the firm developed proposals for the East River front of Manhattan (1998) and were short-listed in a competition to redesign the West Side of Manhattan sponsored by the International Foundation for the Canadian Center for Architecture (1999). Reiser + Umemoto are currently short-listed in a competition to build the New Museum of Contemporary Art's new location in New York. Their designs have won numerous awards and have been exhibited in "The Long View" (1999) at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Venice Biennale of Architecture (2000).