Work

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

A circular museum that dissolves front and back, organizing galleries and public circulation as a porous field rather than a fixed sequence.

building

built

2004

Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

Museum

Museum Cultural Building Glass Aluminum Steel Lightness Open Plans

Glass Aluminum Steel

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Gallery

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa 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

Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.1 JP

Architects

Bureaus

Books

Architects

Architect

Kazuyo Sejima

Born 1956 · Tokyo, Japan

Role: lead architect

Primary

Architect

Ryue Nishizawa

Born 1966 · Tokyo, Japan

Role: lead architect

Primary

Bureaus

Bureau

SANAA

bureau · Tokyo, Japan

Role: designer

Primary

Books

Book

monograph

SANAA: Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa

SANAA, Mohsen Mostafavi · 2006 · Actar

Barcelona

lightness · museums · open plans

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