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The collaborative office of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, known for quietly radical public buildings and highly refined domestic space.

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1995

Tokyo, Japan

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Exterior view of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, showing the circular glazed perimeter and surrounding landscape.

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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

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Towada Art Center in Towada, Japan

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Towada Art Center image

Art museum in Towada-shi, Aomori-ken Japan

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Exterior view of the Rolex Learning Center at EPFL, showing the broad curving roof and glazed openings across the sloped floor plate.

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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 in Tonoshō-chō, Japan

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Teshima Art Museum image

Art museum in Japan

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Koga Park Café in Koga, Japan

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Koga Park Café image

Building in Ibaraki, Japan

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Ogasawara Museum in Iida, Japan

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Ogasawara Museum image

Building in Nagano, Japan

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Architects

Architect

Kazuyo Sejima

Born 1956 · Tokyo, Japan

Role: founder

Founder relationship

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

Architect

Ryue Nishizawa

Born 1966 · Tokyo, Japan

Role: founder

Founder relationship

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

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

Louvre-Lens

2010 · Lens, France

Museum

Kazuyo Sejima

Rolex Learning Center

2010 · Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

University learning center

Kazuyo Sejima · Ryue Nishizawa

Teshima Art Museum

2010 · Tonoshō-chō, Japan

Museum

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

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