SANAA

For other uses, see Sanaa (disambiguation).
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 architects Kazuyo Sejima (妹島 和世 1956–) and Ryue Nishizawa (西沢立衛 1966–), who were were awarded the Pritzker Prize in 2010.[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; the Rolex Learning Center at EPFL in Lausanne; the Serpentine Pavilion in London; the Christian Dior Building in Omotesandō, Tokyo; the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa; and the Louvre-Lens Museum in France.

History

Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa founded SANAA in 1995. Examples of their work include 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; the Serpentine Pavilion in London; the Christian Dior Building in Omotesando, Tokyo; and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa.[2] 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

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. Their work has also 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. 1 2 Pritzker Prize 2010 Media Kit, retrieved 29 March 2010
  2. ↑ Alfirevic Djordje, Simonovic-Alfirevic Sanja. Interpretations of Space Within Space Concept in Contemporary Open-Plan Architecture / Primena koncepta prostor u prostoru u savremenoj arhitekturi otvorenog plana. Arhitektura i urbanizam (Belgrade), No.42 (2016), pp. 24–40.

References

Grace Farms Interior, with floor to ceiling windows.
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