Kazuyo Sejima

Sejima was born on 29 October 1956 in Mito, Ibaraki, Japan. Her mother, although not employed, was highly educated; her father was a welding engineer.Arthur Lubow (9 October 2005), [https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/09/style/tmagazine/disappearing-act.html Disappearing Act] The New York Times Magazine.

Sejima graduated from Japan Women's University in 1979. She then went on to complete the Master's Degree course in architecture in 1981. In the same year, she began working with the architecture firm Toyo Ito and Associates until 1987.{{Cite journal|last=Yoshida|first=Nobuyuki|date=Fall 1999|title=Kazuyo Seijima: Profile|journal=The Japan Architect|volume=35|pages=126–127}}

After apprenticing with Toyo Ito, Sejima established Kazuyo Sejima & Associates in 1987. One of her first hires was Ryue Nishizawa, a student who had worked with Sejima at Toyo Ito and Associates.{{Cite web|title = Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa {{!}} biography – Japanese architects|url = http://www.britannica.com/biography/Kazuyo-Sejima-and-Ryue-Nishizawa|website = Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date = 2015-10-15}} After working for Sejima for several years, Sejima asked him to form a partnership. In 1995, the two founded the Tokyo-based firm SANAA (Sejima and Nishizawa and Associates).{{citation needed|date=October 2022}} In 2010, Sejima was appointed director of architecture sector for the Venice Biennale, which she curated for the 12th Annual International Architecture Exhibition. She was the first woman ever selected for this position.{{cite web|url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/female-designers-breaking-the-mold-671504|title=10 Female Designers Breaking the Mold|date=4 October 2016|publisher=ArtNet|author=Rain Embuscado}} In 2010, she was awarded the Pritzker Prize, together with Ryue Nishizawa.[http://www.pritzkerprize.com/laureates/2010/textmediakit.html Pritzker Prize 2010 Media Kit] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003012819/http://www.pritzkerprize.com/laureates/2010/textmediakit.html |date=3 October 2011 }}, retrieved 29 March 2010

• Saishunkan Seiyaku Women's Dormitory, Kumamoto, Japan (1990–1991){{Cite web |title=GA ARCHITECT 18 : KAZUYO SEJIMA+RYUE NISHIZAWA 1987–2006 |url=https://www.ga-ada.co.jp/english/ga_architect/gaa018.html |access-date=2022-11-17 |website=www.ga-ada.co.jp}}
• Competition for Nasunogahara Harmony Hall (1991)
• Competition for Chuya Nakahara Memorial Museum (1992)
• Gifu Kitagata Apartment, Gifu, Japan (1994){{Cite journal |last=Sejima |first=Kazuyo |date=1996 |title=Recent Projects |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3171459 |journal=Assemblage |issue=30 |pages=75–107 |doi=10.2307/3171459 |jstor=3171459 |issn=0889-3012}}
• Multi Media Studio, Ōgaki, Gifu, Japan (1995)
• Competition for New Campus Center for Illinois Institute of Technology (1997-1998)
• 'De Kunstlinie' Theatre and Cultural Centre, Almere, Netherlands (1998–2007){{Cite web |last=Nishizawa |first=Ryue |date=2014-07-01 |title=de kunstlinie |url=https://www.area-arch.it/en/de-kunstlinie/ |access-date=2022-11-25 |website=Area |language=en-US}}
• SANAA’s 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan (1999–2004){{Cite journal |last=Reisner |first=Yael |date=September 2019 |title=Abstraction and Informality Generate a New Aesthetic An Interview with Kazuyo Sejima |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad.2476 |journal=Architectural Design |language=en |volume=89 |issue=5 |pages=30–37 |doi=10.1002/ad.2476 |s2cid=203062679 |issn=0003-8504}}
• Isetan, Tokyo, Japan (2000)
• Lee Garden, Hong Kong, China (2000-2001)
• House in Plum Grove (2001-2003)
• Glass Pavilion of the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, USA (2001–2006){{Cite web |title=Glass Pavilion, Toledo Museum of Art |url=https://www.mchap.co/MCHAPprojects/Glass-Pavilion,-Toledo-Museum-of-Art |access-date=2022-11-25 |website=MCHAP |language=en}}
• Extension of the Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia, Spain (2002–present){{Cite web |title=SANAA, Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa. IVAM Expansion, Valencia, Spain. 2002–present {{!}} MoMA |url=https://www.moma.org/collection/works/100417 |access-date=2022-11-25 |website=The Museum of Modern Art |language=en}}
• DIOR Tokyo Omotesando Store, Tokyo, Japan (2003)
• Bairin no le, Japan (2003){{Cite journal |last=Nuijsink |first=Cathelijne |date=2021-09-02 |title=From container to lifestyle: Kazuyo Sejima, Sou Fujimoto and the destruction of the nuclear family box |journal=Interiors |volume=11 |issue=2–3 |pages=132–156 |doi=10.1080/20419112.2021.1943190 |issn=2041-9112|doi-access=free |hdl=20.500.11850/511948 |hdl-access=free }}
• Zollverein School of Management and Design, Essen, Germany (2003-2006)
• Naoshima Ferry Terminal, Naoshima, Kagawa, Japan (2003–2006){{Cite web |title=SANAA built a cloud-like passenger terminal for Naoshima island |url=https://worldarchitecture.org/articles/cvghz/sanaa_built_a_cloudlike_passenger_terminal_for_naoshima_island.html |access-date=2022-11-25 |website=World Architecture Community |language=en}}
• New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, USA (2003–2007){{cite news |last=Vogel |first=Carol |date=March 28, 2007 |title=On the Bowery, a New Home for New Art |website=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/arts/artsspecial/28birth.html |access-date=January 5, 2019}}
• Towada Art Center, Towada, Japan (2005–2008)
• Rolex Learning Center, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland (2005–2009)
• Inujima Art House project, Okayama, Japan (began 2008)
• Serpentine Pavilion at Serpentine Galleries, London, UK (2009)
• Louvre-Lens in Lens, France (2012)
• La Samaritaine in Paris, France (2020)
• Sydney Modern (extension of the Art Gallery of New South Wales), Australia, 2022{{Cite web |date=2023-01-23 |title=Sydney Modern Museum / SANAA |url=https://www.archdaily.com/995295/sydney-modern-sanaa |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=ArchDaily |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Sydney Modern Project {{!}} Art Gallery of NSW |url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/sydney-modern-project/ |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au}}{{Cite book |title=SANAA in Sydney: the architecture of Naala Badu at the Art Gallery of New South Wales |date=2024 |publisher=Art Gallery of New South Wales |isbn=978-1-74174-157-5 |editor-last=Brand |editor-first=Michael |location=Sydney, Australia |editor-last2=Baan |editor-first2=Iwan}}

• Alonso Provencio, Marta, Almazán Caballero, Jorge. [https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:88542 Designing the process: scale models in the work of Kazuyo Sejima and Sou Fujimoto]. In: ArchNet-IJAR, 2011, vol. 5, n° 1, p. 22–36.

• 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|978-88-370-3919-6}}
• 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}}

• 1989 – Special Prize for Residential Architecture, Tokyo Architecture Association
• 1990 – SD Prize, SD Review
• 1992 – Second Prize, Commercial Space Design Award
• 1995 – Kenneth F. Brown Asia Pacific Culture and Architecture Design Award, the University of Hawaii (for Saishunkan Seiyaku Women’s Dormitory) 98oi
• 2005 – Rolf Schock Prize in Visual Arts{{cite news |last1=White |first1=Mason |title=Rolf Schock Prize 2005 |url=https://archinect.com/news/article/17575/rolf-schock-prize-2005 |access-date=18 October 2022 |work=Archinect |language=en}}
• 2010 – Pritzker Prize{{cite news |last1=Ing |first1=Will |title=SANAA wins Praemium Imperiale 2022 for architecture |url=https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/sanaa-wins-praemium-imperiale-2022-for-architecture |access-date=19 October 2022 |work=The Architects’ Journal |date=16 September 2022 |language=en}}
• 2019 – Prix Versailles World Judge[http://www.prix-versailles.com/world-jury-2019 Prix Versailles website]
• 2022 – Praemium Imperiale award for architecture
• 2024 – Person of Cultural Merit.{{cite web |url= https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOUE216G80R21C24A0000000/|title= ちばてつや氏ら7人に文化勲章 功労者に青木功氏ら|access-date= 25 October 2024|work= The Nikkei}}
• 2025 – RIBA royal gold medal for architecture.{{Cite news |last=Wainwright |first=Oliver |date=2025-02-06 |title=Thin is the new thick: designers of ‘cardboard’ house win RIBA award |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/feb/06/cardboard-house-designers-sanaa-win-riba-award |access-date=2025-02-06 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}

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• [http://www.sanaa.co.jp SANAA Official Website] {{in lang|ja}}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20160314125541/http://www.pritzkerprize.com/2010/works 2010 Pritzker prize]
• [http://www.fastcompany.com/1599496/new-museum-architects-ryue-nishizawa-kazuyo-sejima-win-pritzker-prize Ryue Nishizawa and Kazuyo Sejima win 2010 Pritzker Architecture Prize] fastcompany.com

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