Award
Ryue Nishizawa and Kazuyo Sejima
Photo Takashi Okamoto Courtesy SANAA
Sejima Kazuyo and Nishizawa Ryue, the duo of Japanese architects who work together under the name SANAA, have been awarded the 2010 Pritzker Architecture Prize, an honor often referred to as ‘the Nobel Prize in architecture’. SANAA are recognized for their art museums, which include the O Museum (Nagano), the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art (Kanazawa), the New Museum (New York) and the Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art. Recent works include the 2009 Serpentine Gallery pavilion, the Rolex Center on the campus of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne (opened February 2010), and they have work underway for the Setouchi International Art Festival opening this July. Sejima and Nishizawa are the fourth Pritzker laureates to be chosen from Japan after Tange Kenzo (1987), Maki Fumihiko (1993) and Ando Tadao (1995).
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