Ryue Nishizawa

Ryue Nishizawa (西沢 立衛, Nishizawa Ryūe, born 1966, Kanagawa Prefecture) is a Japanese architect based in Tokyo. He is a graduate of Yokohama National University, and is director of his own firm, Office of Ryue Nishizawa, established in 1997. In 1995, he co-founded the firm SANAA (Sejima and Nishizawa and Associates) with the architect Kazuyo Sejima. In 2010, he became the youngest recipient ever of the Pritzker Prize, together with Sejima.^[1]

Projects

• Weekend House - 1997 to 1998 - Gunma, Japan
• Takeo Head Office Store - 1999 to 2000 - Tokyo, Japan
• House at Kamakura - 1999 to 2001 - Kanagawa, Japan
• Apartment Building at Ichikawa - 2001 to Present - Chiba, Japan
• Eda Apartment Building - 2002 to Present - Kanagawa, Japan
• Funabashi Apartment Building - 2002 to 2004 - Chiba, Japan
• Moriyama House - 2002 to 2005 - Tokyo, Japan
• Love Planet Museum - 2003 - Okayama, Japan
• Video Pavilion - 2003 to Present - Kagawa, Japan
• House in China - 2003 to Present - Tianjin, China
• Office Building, Benesse Art Site Naoshima - 2004 - Kagawa, Japan
• A House - 2004 to 2007 - Tokyo, Japan
• Naoshima Museum - 2005 to Present - Kagawa, Japan
• Towada Art Center - 2008 - Aomori, Japan
• Teshima Art Museum - 2010 - Kagawa, Japan
• Garden and House - 2013 - Tokyo, Japan

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to SANAA.

• Gallery MA (2003). Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA Works 1995–2003. Toto Shuppan. ISBN 978-4-88706-224-5
• GA (2005). Sejima Kazuyo + Nishizawa Ryue Dokuhon. A.D.A. Edita. ISBN 4-87140-662-8
• GA (2005). GA ARCHITECT 18 Sejima Kazuyo + Nishizawa Ryue. A.D.A. Edita. ISBN 4-87140-426-9
• Yuko Hasegawa (2006). Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa: SANAA. Phaidon Press. ISBN 978-1-904313-40-3
• Agustin Perez Rubio (2007). SANAA Houses: Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa. Actar. ISBN 978-84-96540-70-5
• Joseph Grima and Karen Wong (Eds) (2008) Shift: SANAA and the New Museum. Lars Müller Publishers. ISBN 978-3-03778-140-1
• Thomas Daniell (2008). After the Crash: Architecture in Post-Bubble Japan. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 978-1-56898-776-7

Notes

External links

• Ryue Nishizawa lectures on Theory and Practice
• Office of Ryue Nishizawa official website (Japanese)
• SANAA official website (Japanese)
• SANAA: Works 1998-2008 New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Video at VernissageTV.