Building with Writing: An Odd Couple, Jesse Reiser

Michael Meredith talks to Jesse Reiser about his experience with Stan Allen as students at Cooper Union, and later as partners, colleagues and friends.

Jesse Reiser is an architect and professor at Princeton University School of Architecture. Together with Nanako Umemoto, they co-founded the New York-based architecture firm Reiser + Umemoto.

Michael Meredith teaches and runs a small practice with Hilary Sample.

Guest: Jesse Reiser

Host: Michael Meredith 

Editor: Michael Meredith, Bruce Hongming Liang

These conversations were recorded in parallel to the exhibition Building with Writing at Princeton University School of Architecture in Spring 2025, on the work of Stan Allen.