Kazuyo Sejima
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Kazuyo Sejima (born 1956, Ibaraki prefecture, Japan) is an architect who, with Ryue Nishizawa, founded the Tokyo based firm SANAA (Sejima + Nishizawa and Associates) in 1995. In addition to SANAA, both Sejima and Nishisawa run independent offices for small, local projects. Kazuyo Sejima and Associates was founded in 1987, after training at Tokyo University and in the office of Toyo Ito.
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[edit] Architecture
[edit] Japan
SANAA's works in Japan include:
- S-House in Okayama;
- N-Museum in Wakayama;
- M-House in Tokyo;
- K-Building and the Koga Park Café in Ibaraki;
- O-Museum in Nagano;
- Issey Miyake by Naoki Takizawa Tokyo
- Christian Dior Building Omotesando, both in Tokyo
- 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa [1] photos
- Onishi Civic Center in Onishi photos
[edit] Outside Japan
Current major international projects are:
- Stadstheater 'De Kunstlinie' in Almere, the Netherlands;
- Toledo Museum of Art's Glass Pavilion in Toledo, Ohio;
- extension of the Institute Valencia d'Art Modern in Valencia, Spain;
- the Zollverein School of Management and Design in Essen, Germany;
- New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York;
- a satellite of the Louvre in Lens, France.
[edit] Awards & Publications
The firm's work was included in the exhibition "City of Girls" in the Japanese Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and in the Garden Cafe at the 7th International Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey. In addition, their work has been exhibited at Zumtobel Staff-Lichtforum, Vienna, Austria; Institut Valencia d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain; Zeche Zollverein, Essen, Germany; Gallery-MA, Tokyo, Japan; N-museum, Wakayama, Japan and New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. SANAA has been awarded the Golden Lion for the most remarkable work in the exhibition Metamorph in the 9th International Architecture Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia in 2004, the 46th Mainichi Shinbun Arts Award (Architecture Category) in 2005, and the Schock Prize in the visual arts, also in 2005. Recent publications include Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA Works 1995–2003 (Shuppan, Japan: Toto, 2003); Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa 2000/2004 (Madrid, Spain: El Croquis, No.121/122, 2003) and GA Sejima Kazuyo + Nishizawa Ryue Dokuhon (A.D.A, EDITA, Japan, 2005).
[edit] Professorship
Sejima teaches at Keio University in Tokyo and with Nishizawa, holds the Jean Labatut Professorship at the School of Architecture at Princeton University, USA, where she has served on the advisory council for several years.
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| Preceded by Susan Rothenberg |
Schock Prize in Visual Arts 2005 co-awardee with Ryue Nishizawa |
Succeeded by TBD |
