Architect

Kazuyo Sejima

An architect whose work often pursues lightness, permeability, and subtle social choreography through pared-down forms.

Born 1956

Japanese

Tokyo, Japan

Museum Cultural Building Gallery University Building Learning Center Academic Building Landscape Education

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Gallery

Kazuyo Sejima gallery

New Museum image

Museum in New York City

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Kazuyo Sejima gallery

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art exterior view

Exterior view of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa.

Credit: Kanazawa City

Rights: CC BY 2.1 JP · licensed

Kazuyo Sejima gallery

Rolex Learning Center exterior view

Exterior view of the Rolex Learning Center at EPFL in Lausanne.

Credit: Mikado1201

Rights: CC BY-SA 3.0 · licensed

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Koga Park Café image

Building in Ibaraki, Japan

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Ogasawara Museum image

Building in Nagano, Japan

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Works

Bureaus

Books

Places

Cities

Iida1 Kamezawa1 Kanazawa1 Koga1 Lausanne1 Lens1

Countries

Japan4 France1 Italy1 Switzerland1 United States1

Sources

Wikidata

Focus

museum · academic building · campus building

Glass Steel Aluminum

Bureaus

Bureau

SANAA

bureau · Tokyo, Japan

Role: founder

Years: 1995

Founder relationship

Selected works

New Museum

1977 · New York City, United States

Museum

Kazuyo Sejima

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

2004 · Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

Museum

Kazuyo Sejima · Ryue Nishizawa

Louvre-Lens

2010 · Lens, France

Museum

Kazuyo Sejima

Rolex Learning Center

2010 · Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

University learning center

Kazuyo Sejima · Ryue Nishizawa

Sumida Hokusai Museum

2016 · Kamezawa, Japan

Museum

Kazuyo Sejima

Koga Park Café

Unknown · Koga, Japan

Landscape project

Kazuyo Sejima

New SANAA Campus

Unknown · Milan, Italy

Education building

Kazuyo Sejima

Ogasawara Museum

Unknown · Iida, Japan

Museum

Kazuyo Sejima

Books

Book

monograph

SANAA: Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa

SANAA, Mohsen Mostafavi · 2006 · Actar

Barcelona

lightness · museums · open plans

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Ryue Nishizawa

Born 1966 · Tokyo, Japan

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