Kazuyo Sejima

Kazuyo Sejima
Born	1956 (age 55–56) Ibaraki prefecture, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Awards	Schelling Architekturpreis 2000 Rolf Schock Prize 2005 Pritzker Prize 2010
Work
Practice	Kazuyo Sejima and Associates (1987–1995) SANAA (since 1995)

Kazuyo Sejima (妹島 和世, Sejima Kazuyo, born 1956, Ibaraki prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese architect. After studying at Japan Women's University and working in the office of Toyo Ito, in 1987 she founded Kazuyo Sejima and Associates. In 1995 she founded the Tokyo-based firm SANAA (Sejima and Nishizawa and Associates) together with her former employee Ryue Nishizawa. Sejima was appointed Director of the Architecture Sector for the Venice Biennale, which she curated for the 12th Annual International Architecture Exhibition, held in 2010. She was the first woman ever selected for this position. In 2010 she was awarded the Pritzker Prize, together with Ryue Nishizawa.

Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa have worked on several projects in Germany, France, England, the Netherlands, United States, and Spain. Many of their designs like the New Museum in the Bowery District in New York City as well as their Glass Pavilion for the Toledo Museum of Art involve glass and allowing a space to be open to the world around it. This design element can be found greatly in most of their designs.

Sejima creates most of her designs with very clean modernist elements. They usually include many slick, clean, and shiny surfaces like glass, marble, and metals. She also likes to use squares and cubes within her designs, and these can be found in most of her designs in various different usages. Large windows allow for much natural light to enter a space, and makes her spaces very involved with the worlds that are on the other side of the glass. It's this dual connection of two spaces, that she draws most of her design inspirations.

Projects by Kazuyo Sejima and Associates

Police Office in Chofu Station (1993–94)

Onishi Civic Center (2003–05)

• Platform I Vacation House – 1987 to 1988 – Chiba, Japan
• Platform II Studio – 1988 to 1990 – Yamanachi, Japan
• Platform III House (Not Built/Project Only) – 1989 to 1990 – Tokyo, Japan
• Castelbajac Sports Store – 1990 to 1991 – Kanagawa, Japan
• Saishunkan Seiyaku Women's Dormitory – 1990 to 1991 – Kumamoto, Japan
• N House – 1990 to 1992 – Kumamoto, Japan
• An Apartment Building (Not Built/Project Only) – 1991 – Osaka, Japan
• Nasumoahara Harmony Hall (Not Built/Project Only) – 1991 – Tochigi, Japan
• Pachinko Parlor I – 1991 to 1993 – Ibaraki, Japan
• Villa in the Forest – 1992 to 1994 – Nagano, Japan
• Pachinko Parlor II – 1993 – Ibaraki, Japan
• Y House – 1993 to 1994 – Chiba, Japan
• Police Office in Chofu Station – 1993 to 1994 – Tokyo, Japan
• Service Center at the Tokyo Expo 96 (Not Built/Project Only) – 1994 to 1995 – Tokyo, Japan
• Yokohama International Port Terminal (Not Built/Project Only) – 1994 – Kanagawa, Japan
• Gifu Kitagata Apartment Building – 1994 to 2000 – Gifu, Japan
• Pachinko Parlor III – 1995 to 1996 – Ibaraki, Japan
• U Office Building – 1996 to 1998 – Ibaraki, Japan
• Small House – 1999 to 2000 – Tokyo, Japan
• Kozankaku Student Residence – 1999 to 2000 – Ibaraki, Japan
• hhstyle.com Store – 1999 to 2000 – Tokyo, Japan
• Asahi Shimbun Yamagata Office Building – 2000 to 2002 – Yamagata, Japan
• House in a Plum Grove – 2001 to 2003 – Tokyo, Japan
• Onishi Civic Center – 2003 to 2005 – Gunma, Japan
• Theater and Artscentre- 2007 – Almere, The Netherlands
• New Museum- 2010- New York City, United States
• SHIBAURA HOUSE - 2011 - Tokyo, Japan

Professorship

Sejima teaches as a Visiting Professor, both at Tama Art University and Keio University in Tokyo. Together with Nishizawa, from 2005 to 2008, she held the Jean Labatut Professorship at the School of Architecture at Princeton University, in Princeton, New Jersey in the United States, where she has also served on the advisory council for several years.^{[citation needed]}

References

• 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 (2005). Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA, Electa. ISBN 978-883703919
• 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

• New Museum (2010). http://www.newmuseum.org/about/new_building/

External links

• SANAA Official Website (Japanese)
• Kazuyo Sejima appointed as Director of the Architecture Sector for the Biennale di Venezia.
• STORIES OF HOUSES: House in a Plum Grove (Tokyo), by Kazuyo Sejima