Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, (respectively, born October 29, 1956, Mito, Ibaraki prefecture, Japan; born February 7, 1966, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan), Japanese architects who, as founding partners of the firm SANAA (Sejima and Nishizawa and Associates), designed structures that were admired for their refined simplicity, spatial fluidity, and thoughtful integration into their surroundings. In 2010 they were awarded the Pritzker Prize, becoming only the second partnership to be so honoured. (The first was Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron in 2001.) Sejima earned a master’s degree in architecture in 1981 from Japan Women’s University. After apprenticing with architect Toyo Ito,
Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima has won this year's Jane Drew Prize for Architecture for her contribution to raising the profile of women in architecture.
Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima has been awarded the Jane Drew Prize for Architecture 2023. The award recognises an architectural designer who, through
The Art Gallery of NSW will open a new building to the public on Saturday 3 December, expanding the gallery to form a new art museum campus and marking the…