Ryue Nishizawa Explained

Ryue Nishizawa
Nationality:	Japanese
Birth Place:	Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Alma Mater:	Yokohama National University
Awards:	Rolf Schock Prizes in Visual Arts (2005) Pritzker Prize (2010)

is a Japanese architect based in Tokyo. He is a graduate of Yokohama National University, and is director of his own firm, Office of Ryue Nishizawa, established in 1997. In 1995, he co-founded the firm SANAA (Sejima and Nishizawa and Associates) with the architect Kazuyo Sejima. In 2010, he became the youngest recipient ever of the Pritzker Prize, together with Sejima.^[1]

Projects

• Weekend House - 1997 to 1998 - Gunma, Japan
• Takeo Head Office Store - 1999 to 2000 - Tokyo, Japan
• House at Kamakura - 1999 to 2001 - Kanagawa, Japan
• Apartment Building at Ichikawa - 2001 to Present - Chiba, Japan
• Eda Apartment Building - 2002 to Present - Kanagawa, Japan
• Funabashi Apartment Building - 2002 to 2004 - Chiba, Japan
• Moriyama House - 2002 to 2005 - Tokyo, Japan
• Love Planet Museum - 2003 - Okayama, Japan
• Video Pavilion - 2003 to Present - Kagawa, Japan
• House in China - 2003 to Present - Tianjin, China
• Office Building, Benesse Art Site Naoshima - 2004 - Kagawa, Japan
• 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art - 2004 - Kanazawa, Japan
• A House - 2004 to 2007 - Tokyo, Japan
• Honmura Lounge & Archive - 2005 to Present - Kagawa, Japan
• The New Museum - New York, United States
• Towada Art Center - 2008 - Aomori, Japan
• Teshima Art Museum - 2010 - Kagawa, Japan
• Hiroshi Senju Museum - 2011 - Karuizawa, Japan
• Garden and House - 2013 - Tokyo, Japan

Exhibitions

• Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal (2008)
• Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2008)
• Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa SANAA, Towada Art Center, Towada Aomori (2014)
• Conceptions of Space: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Architecture, MoMA, New York (2014)
• Japan Architects 1945-2010, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (2014-2015)
• A Japanese Constellation: Toyo Ito, SANAA, and Beyond, MoMA, New York (2016)

Further reading

• Gallery MA (2003). Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA Works 1995–2003. Toto Shuppan.
• GA (2005). Sejima Kazuyo + Nishizawa Ryue Dokuhon. A.D.A. Edita.
• GA (2005). GA ARCHITECT 18 Sejima Kazuyo + Nishizawa Ryue. A.D.A. Edita.
• Yuko Hasegawa (2006). Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa: SANAA. Phaidon Press.
• Agustin Perez Rubio (2007). SANAA Houses: Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa. Actar.
• Joseph Grima and Karen Wong (Eds) (2008) Shift: SANAA and the New Museum. Lars Müller Publishers.
• Thomas Daniell (2008). After the Crash: Architecture in Post-Bubble Japan. Princeton Architectural Press.
• Giovanna Borasi (Ed) 2008. Some ideas on living in London and Tokyo : Stephen Taylor, Ryue Nishizawa. Montreal: Canadian Centre for Architecture; Baden, Switzerland: Lars Müller.

External links

• Ryue Nishizawa lectures on Theory and Practice
• Office of Ryue Nishizawa official website
• SANAA official website
• SANAA: Works 1998-2008 New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Video at VernissageTV.
• Finding aid to the Ryue Nishizawa records, Canadian Centre for Architecture.

Notes and References

1. http://www.pritzkerprize.com/laureates/2010/textmediakit.html Pritzker Prize 2010 Media Kit