In 1998, fresh out of completing postgraduate work at the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam, Shohei Shigematsu joined the team of OMA in Rotterdam. It was an important era for OMA—a time when the now omnipresent firm experienced its first taste of worldwide prominence—and the young Shohei quickly rose the ranks. He landed his first major project, the Whitney Museum Extension proposal, in 2001; collaborated on some of the firm's most notable buildings, like Beijing's CCTV Headquarters; and demonstrated a zeal for pushing the traditional boundaries of the field.
In 1998, fresh out of completing postgraduate work at the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam, Shohei Shigematsu joined the team of OMA in Rotterdam. It was an important era for OMA—a time when the now omnipresent firm experienced its first taste of worldwide prominence—and the young Shohei quickly rose the ranks. He landed his first major project, the Whitney Museum Extension proposal, in 2001; collaborated on some of the firm's most notable buildings, like Beijing's CCTV Headquarters; and demonstrated a zeal for pushing the traditional boundaries of the field.