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Ayumi Sugiyama is a Director, Cultural Projects at SHoP Architects in New York. She received a Master of Architecture from Yale University and a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley. She has an expertise in the design and delivery of complex urban projects with significant public space programs and complicated stakeholder groups. Ayumi has acted as project director for several of the firm’s most prominent and award-winning projects, including the Barclays Center arena in Brooklyn, the American Copper Buildings and the New Academic Building at FIT in New York, and the SITE Santa Fe contemporary art center in New Mexico, where she also spearheaded the conceptualization and design of workSHoP, an exhibition of SHoP’s body of work. Additionally, Ayumi co-organizes the Art Talk series at SHoP, engaging artists and organizations to exchange work and processes and building a foundation for better integrating art into architectural projects from their conception. Prior to joining SHoP, Ayumi worked for SOM in San Francisco, and Kengo Kuma & Associates and SANAA in Tokyo.

Ayumi Sugiyama is a Director, Cultural Projects at SHoP Architects in New York. She received a Master of Architecture from Yale University and a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley. She has an expertise in the design and delivery of complex urban projects with significant public space programs and complicated stakeholder groups. Ayumi has acted as project director for several of the firm’s most prominent and award-winning projects, including the Barclays Center arena in Brooklyn, the American Copper Buildings and the New Academic Building at FIT in New York, and the SITE Santa Fe contemporary art center in New Mexico, where she also spearheaded the conceptualization and design of workSHoP, an exhibition of SHoP’s body of work. Additionally, Ayumi co-organizes the Art Talk series at SHoP, engaging artists and organizations to exchange work and processes…

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