Ryue Nishizawa

Ryue Nishizawa (Japanese西 沢 立 卫, Ryue Nishizawa, * 1966, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese architect.

Biography

Nishizawa is a graduate of Yokohama National University and the managing director of his own company Ryue Nishizawa Office of which he had founded in 1997. In 1995 he was co-founder of the architecture firm SANAA ( Sejima And Nishizawa And Associates ) with the architect Kazuyo Sejima. In 2010 he received together with Sejima the Pritzker Prize, the most prestigious award in architecture.

Buildings

• Cabin - 1997-1998 - Gunma Prefecture, Japan
• Takeo Head Office Store - 1999-2000 - Prefecture of Tokyo, Japan
• Residential house in Kamakura - 1999-2001 - Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
• Apartment building in Ichikawa - 2001 to Present - Chiba Prefecture, Japan
• Eda Apartment House - 2002 to 2010 - Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
• Funabashi Apartment House - 2002 to 2004 - Chiba Prefecture, Japan
• Moriyama House - 2002 to 2010 - Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
• Love Planet Museum - 2003 - Okayama Prefecture, Japan
• Video Pavilion - 2003-2010 - Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
• Residential building in China - 2003-2010 - Tianjin, China
• Commercial buildings, Benesse Art Site Naoshima - 2004 - Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
• Museum of Contemporary Art - 1999-2004 Kanazawa, Japan
• Residential House - 2004 to 2010 - Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
• Zollverein cube, Essen 2005
• Serpentine Gallery, London, Pavilion - 2009
• Naoshima Museum - 2005-2010 - Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
• Towada Museum - 2005-2010 - Aomori Prefecture, Japan
• Rolex Learning Center, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland - 2010
• House and Garden, Tokyo - 2011

Prices

• 2005: Rolf Schock Prize together with Kazuyo Sejima ( SANAA )
• 2007: Berlin Art Prize together with Kazuyo Sejima ( SANAA )
• 2010: Pritzker Prize, together with Kazuyo Sejima ( SANAA )