Kazuyo Sejima
Kazuyo Sejima (Japanese妹 岛 和 世, Kazuyo Sejima, born 1956 in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan ) is a Japanese architect. It is one of the most important contemporary architects.
Life
Kazuyo Sejima studied at the University of Nihon Joshi Daigaku private woman, and completed her studies in 1981. From 1981, she worked at Toyo Ito. In 1987, she became self-employed and founded the office Kazuyo Sejima & Partner. Ryue Nishizawa Together with (* 1966), her former employees, it performs since 1995 the architectural firm SANAA in Tokyo. Since 1995 she holds guest lectures at Nihon Joshi Daigaku.
Their clear designs are characterized by modernity and understanding of space. She designed, among other things, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. For the World Heritage Site Zeche Zollverein in Essen, she designed the cube-shaped building which is now used by the Folkwang University.
Kazuyo Sejima initiated in 2010 as the first woman, the Venice Architecture Biennial.
On November 15, 2013 Kazuyo Sejima received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Stuttgart.
Awards
In 2000 Kazuyo Sejima was awarded the Erich Schelling Architecture Prize.
Kazuyo Sejima Ryue Nishizawa received along with the Rolf Schock Prize in 2005 and the Berlin Art Prize of the Academy of Arts in 2007.
Kazuyo Sejima and Nishizawa were awarded the Pritzker Prize in 2010. The Pritzker jury praised her " delicate and powerful " and " clear and smooth " designs.
Works (selection)
- N Museum, Wakayama 1997
- O Museum, Nagano 1999
- House in a Plumgrove, Setagaya (Tokyo) 2003
- Christian Dior Building, Shibuya (Tokyo) 2004
- 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa 2004
- Onishi Civic Center, Onishi, Gunma Prefecture in 2005
- Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio 2005
- Zollverein cube, Essen 2005
- New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York in 2006
- Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, London 2009
- Rolex Learning Center, Lausanne 2010
Police station at Chofu Station ( Tokyo Prefecture), 1994 ( at 2010 departed )
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, 2004
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, London, 2009
The remarkable project " House in a Plumgrove " (House in a plum grove ) is a 77 -square-foot house in Tokyo. Each function has received its own space here, however they are connected through various windows. The achieved by networking the rooms acoustic and visual simultaneity of all spaces can be interpreted as an architectural counterpart to the cross-referencing of modern information technology. Also in other projects, such as the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, this equality of all rooms ( of hierarchy ) can be observed.