Architect

Ryue Nishizawa

A Japanese architect whose work explores openness, fine-grained structural order, and unusually soft boundaries between rooms and landscapes.

Born 1966

Japanese

Tokyo, Japan

Museum Cultural Building University Building Learning Center Academic Building Performance Venue Glass Aluminum

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Gallery

Ryue Nishizawa 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

Ryue Nishizawa gallery

Towada Art Center image

Art museum in Towada-shi, Aomori-ken Japan

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Ryue Nishizawa 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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Teshima Art Museum image

Art museum in Japan

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Works

Bureaus

Books

Places

Cities

Kanazawa1 Lausanne1 Tonoshō-chō1 Towada1

Countries

Japan3 Switzerland1

Sources

Wikidata

Focus

museum · academic building · cultural building

Concrete Glass Steel

Bureaus

Bureau

SANAA

bureau · Tokyo, Japan

Role: founder

Years: 1995

Founder relationship

Selected works

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

2004 · Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

Museum

Kazuyo Sejima · Ryue Nishizawa

Towada Art Center

2008 · Towada, Japan

Museum

Ryue Nishizawa

Rolex Learning Center

2010 · Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

University learning center

Kazuyo Sejima · Ryue Nishizawa

Teshima Art Museum

2010 · Tonoshō-chō, Japan

Museum

Ryue Nishizawa

Books

Book

monograph

SANAA: Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa

SANAA, Mohsen Mostafavi · 2006 · Actar

Barcelona

lightness · museums · open plans

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Kazuyo Sejima

Born 1956 · Tokyo, Japan

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