Vitra.

SANAA

Biography:

Kazuyo Sejima, born in the Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, in 1956. Studied Architecture at the Japan Women’s University. She subsequently worked at Toyo Ito & Associates, before establishing an architecture bureau, Kazuyo Sejima & Associates, in 1987, and another one, SANAA, with Ryue Nishizawa, in 1995. She has been a lecturer at the University of Keio since 2001. Ryue Nishizawa, born in the Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, in 1966. Studied Architecture at the Yokohama National University. He subsequently worked at Kazuyo Sejima & Associates and in 1995 established an architecture bureau, SANAA, with Kazuyo Sejima. In 1997, he established the Office of Ryue Nishizawa and has been teaching at the Yokohama National University since 2001. In 2010, SANAA received the Hyatt Foundation's Pritzker Architecture Prize.

Projects:

Projects for Vitra:

• 2010 Vitrashop Production Hall on the Vitra Campus, Weil am Rhein

Products in collaboration with Vitra:

• 2010 Flower

Other current projects:

• Extensions to the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia
• New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
• House for China International Practical Exhibition of Architecture, Nanjing
• Novartis office building, Campus WSJ-158, Basle
• Naoshima Ferry Terminal, Kagawa
• Learning Centre, EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Lausanne
• Louvre-Lens, Paris

Other projects:

• 2006 De Kunstlinie Theatre and Cultural Centre, Almere
• 2006 Glass pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo (USA)
• 2006 Zollverein Design School, Essen
• 2004 Museum of Contemporary Art of the 21st Century, Kanazawa
• 2003 Christian Dior Building Omotesando, Tokyo
• 2003 ISSEY MIYAKE by NAOKI TAKIZAWA, Tokyo
• 2001 PRADA Beauty LEEGARDEN, Hong Kong
• 2001 Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
• 2000 7th International Architecture Biennial, "City of Girls", Japanese Pavilion, Venice
• 2000 Day Care Centre for Senior Citizens, Yokohama
• 1999 Centre for Contemporary Art (project), Rome
• 1999 Museum O, Nagano
• 1998 Kitagata apartment house, Gifu
• 1998 Park Café, Koga
• 1998 New Campus Center for the Illinois Institute of Technology (project), Chicago
• 1998 Restoration of old town district, Salerno
• 1997 Kumanokodo Nakahechi Museum – Museum N, Nakahechi
• 1997 M House, Tokyo
• 1997 K Building, Hitachi
• 1997 Multimedia Studio, Oogaki
• 1997 S Building, Okayama
• 1996 Multimedia Workshop, Gifu