SANAA

Kitagata Housing project by SANAA

Zollverein School of Management and Design (Essen/Germany) by SANAA

Christian Dior building, Omotesandō

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, 2009

The EPFL Learning Centre, Lausanne (Switzerland).

SANAA (Sejima and Nishizawa and Associates) is a multiple award-winning architectural firm based in Tokyo, Japan. It was founded in 1995 by two Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima (妹島 和世 1956-) and Ryue Nishizawa (西沢立衛 1966-). In 2010, Sejima and Nishizawa were awarded the Pritzker Prize.^[1] Examples of their work include the Toledo Museum of Art's Glass Pavilion in Toledo, Ohio; the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, NY; the Rolex Learning Center at EPFL in Lausanne; the Serpentine Pavilion in London; the Christian Dior Building in Omotesando in Tokyo; the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa; and the Louvre-Lens Museum in France.

Biography

In 1995, Kazuyo Sejima (born in 1956) and Ryue Nishizawa (born in 1966) founded SANAA. Examples of their groundbreaking work include, among others, the Rolex Learning Center at the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland; the Toledo Museum of Art's Glass Pavilion in Toledo, Ohio; the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, NY: the Serpentine Pavilion in London; the Christian Dior Building in Omotesando in Tokyo; and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa. They later won the Golden Lion in 2004 for the most significant work in the Ninth International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. In 2010, they were awarded the Pritzker Prize, which made Sejima the second female to win this prize.

Grace Farms Designed by SANAA. New Canaan, CT..

Projects

• Multimedia Studio - 1995 to 1996 - Gifu, Japan
• N Museum - 1995 to 1997 - Wakayama, Japan
• O Museum - 1995 to 1999 - Nagano, Japan
• S House - 1995 to 1996 - Okayama, Japan
• M House - 1996 to 1997 - Tokyo, Japan
• K Office Building - 1996 to 1997 - Ibaraki, Japan
• Koga Park Café - 1997 to 1998 - Ibaraki, Japan
• Welfare Center - 1997 - Kanagawa, Japan
• The Museum of Contemporary Art (Not Built/Project Only) - 1997 to 1999 - Sydney, Australia
• The New Campus Center of the Illinois Institute of Technology (Not Built/Project Only) - 1998 - Chicago, Illinois, USA
• De Kunstlinie Theater & Cultural Center - 1998 to 2006 - Almere, Netherlands
• Proposal for Reclaiming Salerno's Inner City - 1999 to Present - Italy
• 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art - 1999 to 2004 - Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
• Lumiere Park Café - 1999 to Present - Almere, Netherlands
• Prada Beauty Store - 2000 - Arezzo, Italy
• Installation for the Japan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale - 2000 - Venice, Italy
• Dior Omotesando Store - 2001 to 2003 - Tokyo, Japan
• The Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art - 2001 to 2006 - Toledo, Ohio, USA
• The New Mercedes Benz Museum (Not Built/Project Only) - 2002 - Stuttgart, Germany
• Extension to the Rietberg Museum (Not Built/Project Only) - 2002 - Zurich, Switzerland
• Extension to the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno - 2002 to Present - Valencia, Spain
• Issey Miyake Store by Naoki Takizawa - 2003 - Tokyo, Japan
• Zollverein School of Design - 2003 to 2006 - Essen, Germany
• Naoshima Ferry Terminal - 2003 to 2006 - Kagawa, Japan
• The New Museum of Contemporary Art - 2003 to 2007 - New York City, USA
• Novartis Office Building - 2003 to Present - Basel, Switzerland
• House for the CIPEA (China International Practical Exhibition of Architecture) - 2004 to Present - Nanjing, China
• Serpentine Gallery Pavilion - 2009 - London, England
• Rolex Learning Center at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - 2004 to 2010 - Lausanne, Switzerland
• Le Louvre-Lens - 2005 to 2012 - Lens, Pas-de-Calais, France

Awards

SANAA's work was included in the exhibition "City of Girls" in the Japanese Pavilion at the 2000 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. In 2010, Sejima and Nishizawa were awarded the Pritzker Prize, the highest of honours in architecture.^[1]

Notes

1. Pritzker Prize 2010 Media Kit, retrieved 29 March 2010

References

• Matthew Allen (2010). "Control Yourself! Lifestyle Curation in the Work of Sejima and Nishizawa". Architecture at the Edge of Everything Else. WORK Books / MIT Press. ISBN 9780262014793
• Thomas Daniell (2008). After the Crash: Architecture in Post-Bubble Japan. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 978-1-56898-776-7
• Kristin Feireiss (Ed): The Zollverein School of Management and Design Essen, Germany. Prestel, München 2006, ISBN 978-3-7913-3539-1
• 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
• Joseph Grima and Karen Wong (Eds) (2008) Shift: SANAA and the New Museum. Lars Müller Publishers. ISBN 978-3-03778-140-1
• 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

Grace Farms Interior, with floor to ceiling windows.

External links

• SANAA Official Website
• SANAA: Works 1998-2008 New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Video at VernissageTV.
• Pritzker Prize goes to SANAA - NPR audio
• Zollverein School of Management and Design
• SANAA: Architecture Travel Guide on www.checkonsite.com