Taeg Nishimoto

Taeg Nishimoto is an architect, designer and educator who documents his research on material, object and space at TN/MOS. Trained at Waseda University in Tokyo and at Cornell, he worked in Amsterdam for Herman Hertzberger and in Tokyo for Kunihiko Hayakawa & Associates before running his own practice, Taeg Nishimoto + Allied Architects, in New York.

The work moves between drawing, operations on materials, spatial installations and architectural objects, and has been exhibited at the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo and La Galerie d’Architecture in Paris; the PLOT House series is in the permanent collection of the FRAC Centre in Orléans. He taught at Columbia, Pratt and Temple, joined Texas A&M in 2001 and has been Professor of Architecture at the University of Texas at San Antonio since 2007. He is licensed in Japan and New York.