Ryue Nishizawa
Ryue Nishizawa | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1966 (age 57–58) Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Alma mater | Yokohama National University |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Awards | Rolf Schock Prizes in Visual Arts (2005) Pritzker Prize (2010) |
Ryue Nishizawa (西沢 立衛, Nishizawa Ryūe, born 1966 in Kanagawa Prefecture) 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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)
Notes
[edit]- ^ Pritzker Prize 2010 Media Kit, retrieved 29 March 2010
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Further reading
[edit]- Gallery MA (2003). Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA Works 1995–2003. Toto Shuppan. ISBN 978-4-88706-224-5
- GA (2005). Sejima Kazuyo + Nishizawa Ryue Dokuhon. A.D.A. Edita. ISBN 4-87140-662-8
- GA (2005). GA ARCHITECT 18 Sejima Kazuyo + Nishizawa Ryue. A.D.A. Edita. ISBN 4-87140-426-9
- Yuko Hasegawa (2006). Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa: SANAA. Phaidon Press. ISBN 978-1-904313-40-3
- Agustin Perez Rubio (2007). SANAA Houses: Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa. Actar. ISBN 978-84-96540-70-5
- Joseph Grima and Karen Wong (Eds) (2008) Shift: SANAA and the New Museum. Lars Müller Publishers. ISBN 978-3-03778-140-1
- Thomas Daniell (2008). After the Crash: Architecture in Post-Bubble Japan. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 978-1-56898-776-7
- 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. ISBN 978-0-92078-580-5, 978-3-03778-150-0
External links
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- Ryue Nishizawa lectures on Theory and Practice
- Office of Ryue Nishizawa official website (in Japanese)
- SANAA official website (in Japanese)
- 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.
