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Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa
Office location: Tokyo, Japan

Most recent Buildings:

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009 : Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion SANAA
image © Nick Weall
Serpentine Pavilion

Derek Lam Boutique, New York City, USA
2009
Derek Lam New York Store
photograph from DLM
Derek Lam New York Store

Major Work by SANAA:

New Museum of Contemporary Art - Extension, SoHo, Manhattan, USA
2006-07
New York Museum of Contemporary Art
photograph from SANAA, 2007
SANAA : New York Museum of Contemporary Art

Major Buildings by SANAA Architects, alphabetical:

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
2004
Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa
photo © 2008 Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA

De Kunstlinie - Almere Theatre / Almere Arts Centre, The Netherlands
2007
De Kunstlinie
photo © Adrian Welch
Almere Buildings

Dior Omotesando - Dior Store, Tokyo, Japan
2003

Glass Pavilion, Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, USA
2006
Museum of Art Toledo
picture © 2008 Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA

House in a Plum Grove, Tokyo, Japan
2003

New Museum of Contemporary Art - Extension, SoHo, New York, USA
2006-07

Zollverein School of Management & Design, Essen, Germany
2006
Zollverein School of Management
photo © 2008 Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA
German Building

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Key Project

Camp Nou Stadium Redevelopment - Competition entry, Barcelona, Spain
2007
Camp Nou Stadium
image from SANAA, 2007
SANAA architects : Spanish Architecture Competition

Practice Information

SANAA : Kazuyo Sejima (right) and Ryue Nishizawa (left)
Sejima Nishizawa
picture © 2008 Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA
Photograph © Takashi Okamoto


Ryue Nishizawa - ar+d Jury member 2004

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SANAA - Japanese Architects:
Principles Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa have, in a short time, developed SANAA from a Japanese partnership to a globally-recognized architects studio responsible for high-profile projects including The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan, The Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio, the New Contemporary Art Museum building in Manhattan and the Christian Dior building in Omotesando, Tokyo.

KAZUYO SEJIMA
principle
1956 Born in Ibaraki Prefecture
Graduated from Japan Women’s University with Masters Degree in Architecture Joined Toyo Ito & Associates
1987 Established Kazuyo Sejima & Associates
1995 Established SANAA with architect Ryue Nishizawa
2001 Professor at Keio University
2006 Visiting Professor at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
2006- Visiting Professor at Princeton University

RYUE NISHIZAWA
principle
1966 Born in Kanagawa Prefecture
Graduated from Yokohama National University with Masters Degree in Architecture Joined Kazuyo Sejima & Associates
1995 Established SANAA with architect Kazuyo Sejima
1997 Established Office of Ryue Nishizawa
2001- Associate Professor at Yokohama National University
2006 Visiting Professor at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
2006- Visiting Professor at Princeton University
2007- Visiting Professor at GSD, Harvard University

Major Works by SANAA
1996 Multimedia Workshop, Gifu, Japan
S-House, Okayama, Japan
1997 N-Museum, Wakayama; Japan M-House, Tokyo; K-Building, Ibaraki, Japan
1998 Koga Park Café, Ibaraki
1999 O-Museum, Nagano, Japan
2000 Day Care Center, Kanagawa, Japan
La Biennale di Venezia, 7th International Architecture Exhibition “City of girls” Japanese Pavilion, Venice, Italy
PRADA Beauty Prototype
2001 PRADA Beauty LEEGARDEN Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Garden Cafe at the 7th International Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey
2003 ISSEY MIYAKE by NAOKI TAKIZAWA, Tokyo
Christian Dior Building Omotesando, Tokyo
2004 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa, Kanazawa, Japan
2006 Zollverein School of management and design, Essen, Germany
The Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion, Toledo, Ohio, USA
Novartis Campus WSJ-158 Office Building, Basel, Switzerland
Naoshima Ferrey Terminal building, Kagawa, Japan
2007 Stadstheater Almere ‘De Kunstlinie’, Almere, the Netherlands
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA

Current Projects by SANAA Architects
Extension of the Institute Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain House for China International Practical Exhibition of Architecture, Nanjing, China Learning Center, EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), Switzerland Louvre Lens, Paris, France Vitra Factory Building, Weil am Rhein, Germany Torre Neruda, Guadalajara, Mexico Berggruen Hotels, India OPAC housing,
Paris, France Derek Lam, New York, New York

SANAA Architects - Awards
1998 The Prize of Architectural Institute of Japan, Tokyo, Japan
2000 Erich Schelling Architekturpreis, Kalsruhe, Germany
2002 Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture, American Academy of Arts & Letters, N.Y, USA Architecture Award of Salzburg Vincenzo Scamozzi, Salzburg, Austria
2004 Golden Lion for the most remarkable work in the exhibition Metamorph in the 9th International Architecture Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia 46th Mainichi Newspaper Arts Award (Architecture Category) The Rolf Schock Prize in category of visual arts, Sweden
2006 The Prize of Architectural Insititute of Japan, Tokyo, Japan
2007 Premio Mario Pani 2007 (The Mario Pani Award), Mexico City, Mexico The Kunstpreis Berlin (Berlin Art Prize), Berlin, Germany



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