SANAA

SANAA (Sejima and Nishizawa and Associates) is an architectural firm based in Tokyo. It was founded in 1995 by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. In 2010, Sejima and Nishizawa were awarded the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honor.^[1]

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
De Kunstlinie Theater & Cultural Center - 1998 to Present - 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
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, New York
Novartis Office Building - 2003 to Present - Basel, Switzerland
House for the CIPEA (China International Practical Exhibition of Architecture) - 2004 to Present - Nanjing, China
Louvre-Lens - Lens, France
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion - 2009 - London, England
Rolex Learning Center at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - 2004 to 2010 - Lausanne, Switzerland

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]

References

Gallery MA (2003). Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA Works 1995–2003. Toto Shuppan. ISBN 978-4887062245
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 978-1904313403
Agustin Perez Rubio (2007). SANAA Houses: Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa. Actar. ISBN 978-8496540705
Joseph Grima and Karen Wong (Eds) (2008) Shift: SANAA and the New Museum. Lars Müller Publishers. ISBN 978-3037781401
Thomas Daniell (2008). After the Crash: Architecture in Post-Bubble Japan. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 978-1568987767

Notes

^ ^a ^b Pritzker Prize 2010 Media Kit, retrieved 29 March 2010

External links

SANAA Official Website
SANAA: Works 1998-2008 New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Video at VernissageTV.

[Pritzker-1] Pritzker Prize 2010 Media Kit, retrieved 29 March 2010

[1]

v t e Rolf Schock Prize laureates
Logic and philosophy	Willard Van Orman Quine (1993) Michael Dummett (1995) Dana Scott (1997) John Rawls (1999) Saul Kripke (2001) Solomon Feferman (2003) Jaakko Hintikka (2005) Thomas Nagel (2008) Hilary Putnam (2011) Derek Parfit (2014) Ruth Millikan (2017) Saharon Shelah (2018) Dag Prawitz / Per Martin-Löf (2020) David Kaplan (2022)
Mathematics	Elias M. Stein (1993) Andrew Wiles (1995) Mikio Sato (1997) Yuri I. Manin (1999) Elliott H. Lieb (2001) Richard P. Stanley (2003) Luis Caffarelli (2005) Endre Szemerédi (2008) Michael Aschbacher (2011) Yitang Zhang (2014) Richard Schoen (2017) Ronald Coifman (2018) Nikolai G. Makarov (2020) Jonathan Pila (2022)
Visual arts	Rafael Moneo (1993) Claes Oldenburg (1995) Torsten Andersson (1997) Herzog & de Meuron (1999) Giuseppe Penone (2001) Susan Rothenberg (2003) SANAA / Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa (2005) Mona Hatoum (2008) Marlene Dumas (2011) Anne Lacaton / Jean-Philippe Vassal (2014) Doris Salcedo (2017) Andrea Branzi (2018) Francis Alÿs (2020) Rem Koolhaas (2022)
Musical arts	Ingvar Lidholm (1993) György Ligeti (1995) Jorma Panula (1997) Kronos Quartet (1999) Kaija Saariaho (2001) Anne Sofie von Otter (2003) Mauricio Kagel (2005) Gidon Kremer (2008) Andrew Manze (2011) Herbert Blomstedt (2014) Wayne Shorter (2017) Barbara Hannigan (2018) György Kurtág (2020) Víkingur Ólafsson (2022)