SANAA   Australia   The Victorian building of one of the country’s principal art institutions has now been enlarged with a cluster of interconnected pavilions that go about adapting to the topography of the site.

SANAA   Israel   The new campus of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design sits atop a hill in Jerusalem’s Russian Compound, one of the oldest neighborhoods in the city center. The school’s traditionally separate nine departments contain studios, classrooms, workshops

SANAA   Italy   The Japanese firm SANAA – Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa – has been commissioned to build a campus for the Italian supermarket chain Esselunga. The site is is an abandoned industrial zone in Limito di Pioltello (Milan), where the company’s administ

SANAA   Russia   The Garage, Moscow’s most important contemporary art center, has unveiled the Japanese firm SANAA’s scheme to expand its facilities: the reconstruction of the Hexagon, a ruined 1920s construction beside the museum in Gorky Park. The Garage, which ope

Kazuyo Sejima   Japan   “The flow of the river is ceaseless; and its water is never the same.” So begins Hōjōki, or ‘An Account of My Hut,’ the poetic diary written by Kamo no Chōmei in 1212 which is a high moment of Japan’s classical literature. These beautiful words on ra

SANAA   France   Fifteen years and 280 French companies have taken part in the reconstruction, reshaping, and renovation of La Samaritaine in Paris. The history of this department store dates back to 1870, when Ernest Cognacq opened at the junction of Pont-Neuf and M

SANAA   Italy   A result of the international call for ideas convened by Bocconi University to extend its facilities in Milan, the project for the new campus sits on grounds located south of the current university campus, between a park and the urban environment clo

SANAA   China   The Japanese firm SANAA, founded by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, has won the competition to build the Maritime Museum in the Dapeng area of the city of Shenzhen. Its scheme, titled ‘The Cloud on the Ocean,’ was one of 88 entries that came from 2

Kazuyo Sejima   Japan   Atop a hill in the Osaka University of Arts campus, this construction seeks to meld with the topography and natural environment besides harnessing views of the landscape and city. Hence Kazuyo Sejima – founder, with Ryue Nishizawa, of the firm SANAA

SANAA   Australia   New images have been released of the currently-under-construction Sydney Modern Project of SANAA, the joint practice of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. This is the Japanese firm's first work in Australia and completion is programmed for 2022. The f

SANAA   Japan   Rising on the site where the former cultural center used to stand, the new building seeks to blend in the context of wood houses of the historic center; the fragmentation of the roof manages to reduce the visual impact of the large volume...

SANAA   France   The refurbishment of the Parisian department stores creates a passageway that crosses the urban block linking three courtyards and establishing a connection between the historic facade towards the Seine and a new wavy one towards Rue de Rivoli. 

SANAA   Germany   A light glass facade wraps the new museum, transformed into a winter garden where the public program spaces are surrounded by local vegetation; the structure is minimized to stress the transparency and permeability of the building...

Kazuyo Sejima   Japan   Located in an urban context, this small museum goes up on a rectangular plot, on the border of a park. To create a harmonious balance with its environment, the building is divided into several smaller size uneven volumes that are joined at different

Kazuyo Sejima   Japan   The headquarters of Yoshida Printing, located in a business area near Tokyo, house different multifunctional spaces to concentrate, in a flexible manner, the offices of the Japanese company and spaces for special events. The plot, rectangular in shap

Kazuyo Sejima   Japan   Located in Kyoto’s suburbs, this aggregation of dwellings is discreetly inserted in the urban fabric in keeping with the layout and scale of the traditional houses around it. The compound includes ten dwellings divided into small spatial units, formi

Kazuyo Sejima   Japan   Shibaura district is a dense and cosmopolite urban area with office buildings in the heart of Tokyo Bay. On a small corner plot, this multiuse building establishes a meeting point where the characteristics of a business center mix up with those of a

Kazuyo Sejima   Japan   This artistic project is developed in a small town on the Japanese island of Inujima, in the Seto Inland Sea. The area is characterized by its privileged natural environment, and it is here that a series of pavilions, exhibition spaces and landscapin

Kazuyo Sejima   Japan   Located across from rice fields and mountains, this building is a mid-scale community center for people living in the area. The center harbors a varied program with a library, an assembly hall, a room for mothers and children, classrooms, workshops a

Kazuyo Sejima   Japan   In the northern area of Yokohama, this unique housing block blends smoothly into the urban grid. Adjusting its perimeter to the rectangular plot of 458 square meters, the building breaks the communal volumetric scheme by generating interior voids tha

Kazuyo Sejima   Japan   The high population density in Tokyo is an essential factor in the collective housing projects developed on the outskirts and that usually result in stacked apartment buildings that have little to do with the traditional Japanese house. The Seijo Hou

Kazuyo Sejima   Japan   In Gunma prefecture, in the interior of Japan, this public facility is spread out on a park to create a civic epicenter for the one thousand inhabitants in the small municipality where it is located. The building, including an administration center,

SANAA   France   Sobre el emplazamiento de una vieja mina a cielo abierto en Lens, SANAA ha construido una nueva filial para el Louvre, tan atmosférica y lírica como precisa y funcional.

Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, the founding partners of the Japanese firm SANAA, have been distinguished with the Charlotte Perriand Award, an accolade given by the Créateurs Design Association. This is the fourth edition of the accolade, previous

SANAA Every year since 1989 The Imperial Family of Japan and The Japan Art Association have given the Praemium Imperiale in five fields, acknowledging contributions to the development and promotion of the arts worldwide. Each of the laureates receive

With their unique confederated arrangement, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa work as much together, in alliance, as they do separately, although most of their projects outside Japan have been carried under the dual label of SANAA. The firm’s increasi

youtube.com   Tokyo Ride is a new step of Bêka & Lemoine’s immersion within Tokyo’s busy daily life. Revisiting the genre of the road movie in a very diaristic and personal way, the film takes us on board of Ryue Nishizawa’s vintage Alfa Romeo (Giulia) fo

Kazuyo Sejima   We make study models constantly, from the beginning to the end of the project. The scale gradually becomes larger, but whether we are going forward or taking a few steps back, it’s something that we repeat again and again as we create the real thing.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Interpreting the oeuvre of SANAA from its Japanese roots is inevitable and insufficient. Inevitable because both its exquisite elegance and its technical subtlety are inseparable from the cultural and material sophistication of the archipelago: when

Lys Villalba   A través de 21 entrevistas a 21 arquitectos japoneses de tres generaciones, nacidos en las décadas de 1950 (Kengo Kuma, Kazuyo Sejima), de 1960 (Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Ryue Nishizawa) y de 1970 (Junya Ishigami, Go Hasegawa), How to make a Japanese Hous

SANAA Kazuyo Sejima (Ibaraki, 1956) and Ryue Nishizawa (Tokyo, 1966) are the Pritzker 2010 laureates. It is the fourth time that the prize goes to Japanese architects – Kenzo Tange received it in 1987, Fumihiko Maki in 1993 and Tadao Ando in 1995 – a

Richard Ingersoll   En su presente edición, la Bienal de Arquitectura de Venecia transmite levedad y sutileza, rasgos distintivos de su directora, quien en lugar de grandes figuras ha reunido a jóvenes talentos, entre ellos varios japoneses y algunos españoles.

Pablo del Ser   Tras la II Guerra Mundial se produjo un cambio drástico en la forma de vida de los japoneses. El tránsito de una sociedad todavía ampliamente agraria a otra industrial y de servicios provocó la disgregación de la familia tradicional, así como importa

Cristina Díaz Moreno   Efrén García Grinda   Algo similar a enfrentarse por primera vez a la arquitectura de Sejima y Nishizawa ocurre cuando el lector tiene entre sus manos este volumen, que recoge la obra desde los comienzos de Sejima en solitario hasta la actual situación de tres estudios tr

Marta García Carbonero   Kazuyo Sejima & Martin Steinmann Few international awards distinguish the theory and practice of the profession as impartially as the Erich Schelling Architekturpreis, which biennially acknowledges the career of an architect along with that of a crit

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Houses continue to be an architectural laboratory and an indicator of social mutations; several of the most influential are put on exhibit at the MoMA.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The dwelling is the territory of formal experiments: in Holland and Japan, high demographic density is at times accompanied by high artistic density.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2016   - 352 Pages 

Yuko Hasegawa   Milan  2005  
Mondadori Electa   - 267 Pages