N. 205 SANAA [I] 2015 2020

This monograph is devoted to the work built by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa between 2015 and 2020, both jointly, in the practice founded by the two of them, SANAA, and individually.
SANAA, created in 1995 by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, has received numerous prestigious international awards, including the Golden Lion at the 9th Venice Biennale (2004), the Architectural Institute of Japan Prize (2006), the Pritzker Prize (2010) and the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (2016).
Kazuyo Sejima (Ibaraki, Japan, 1956) graduated from Japan Women's University in 1981 and then joined Toyo Ito & Associates. In 1987 she founded her own practice, and in 1992 she was named Young Architect of the Year. She has received the Arts Award of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. She is currently a professor at the Polytechnic University of Milan and the Yokohama Graduate School of Architecture, and a visiting professor at Japan Women's University and Osaka University of Arts.
Ryue Nishizawa (Tokyo, Japan, 1966) graduated from Yokohama National University in 1990 and that same year began working for Kazuyo Sejima & Associates. In 1997 he established his independent practice. He is currently a professor at the Yokohama Graduate School of Architecture.

Texts

• Architecture and Environment as One. A Conversation with Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa
  Maki Onishi
• Toward a Vital Architecture
  Maki Onishi

Works and projects

• SANAA
• Grace Farms
• Naoshima Port in Honmura
• Shogin Tact Tsuruoka
• New Hitachi City Hall
• Kazuyo Sejima & Associates
• Sumida Hokusai Museum
• Art Science Department Building, Osaka University of Arts
• New Laview Express Train
• New Library, Japan Women’s University
• Art Wuzhen Installation
• Office of Ryue Nishizawa
• Tokuda House
• Oyagi House
• House in Los Vilos
• Six Office Building
• Jining Art Museum
• Morimoto House