is a

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based in

Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...

. He is a graduate of

Yokohama National University , abbreviated to or YNU, is a national university located in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Founded in 1876, it became a national university in 1949, and currently comprises five graduate schools and four undergraduate faculties. The univ ...

, and is director of his own firm, Office of Ryue Nishizawa, established in 1997. In 1995, he co-founded the firm

SANAA Sanaa ( ar, صَنْعَاء, ' , Yemeni Arabic: ; Old South Arabian: 𐩮𐩬𐩲𐩥 ''Ṣnʿw''), also spelled Sana'a or Sana, is the capital and largest city in Yemen and the centre of Sanaa Governorate. The city is not part of the Gover ...

(Sejima and Nishizawa and Associates) with the architect

Kazuyo Sejima is a Japanese architect and director of her own firm, Kazuyo Sejima & Associates. In 1995, she co-founded the firm SANAA (Sejima + Nishizawa & Associates). In 2010, Sejima was the second woman to receive the Pritzker Prize, which was awarded jo ...

. In 2010, he became the youngest recipient ever of the

Pritzker Prize The Pritzker Architecture Prize is an international architecture award presented annually "to honor a living architect or architects whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produ ...

, together with Sejima.Pritzker Prize 2010 Media Kit
retrieved 29 March 2010

Projects

* Weekend House - 1997 to 1998 -

Gunma is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Gunma Prefecture has a population of 1,937,626 (1 October 2019) and has a geographic area of 6,362 km2 (2,456 sq mi). Gunma Prefecture borders Niigata Prefecture and Fukushima P ...

, Japan * Takeo Head Office Store - 1999 to 2000 - Tokyo, Japan * House at Kamakura - 1999 to 2001 -

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, Japan * Apartment Building at Ichikawa - 2001 to Present -

Chiba Chiba may refer to: Places China * (), town in Jianli County, Jingzhou, Hubei Japan * Chiba (city), capital of Chiba Prefecture ** Chiba Station, a train station * Chiba Prefecture, a sub-national jurisdiction in the Greater Tokyo Area on ...

, Japan * Eda Apartment Building - 2002 to Present -

, Japan * Funabashi Apartment Building - 2002 to 2004 - Chiba, Japan * Moriyama House - 2002 to 2005 - Tokyo, Japan * Love Planet Museum - 2003 -

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, Japan * Video Pavilion - 2003 to Present -

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, Japan * House in China - 2003 to Present -

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* Office Building, Benesse Art Site Naoshima - 2004 - Kagawa, Japan * 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art - 2004 - Kanazawa, Japan * A House - 2004 to 2007 - Tokyo, Japan * Honmura Lounge & Archive - 2005 to Present - Kagawa, Japan *

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- New York,

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* Towada Art Center - 2008 -

Aomori is the capital city of Aomori Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 278,964 in 136,457 households, and a population density of 340 people per square kilometer spread over the city's total area of ...

, Japan * Teshima Art Museum - 2010 - Kagawa, Japan * Hiroshi Senju Museum - 2011 - Karuizawa, Japan *Garden and House - 2013 - Tokyo, Japan

Exhibitions

Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa

Canadian Centre for Architecture The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA; french: Centre Canadien d'Architecture) is a Architecture museum, museum of architecture and research centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located at 1920, rue Baile (1920, Baile Street), between r ...

Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-most populous city in Canada and List of towns in Quebec, most populous city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian ...

(2008)
Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA

Henry Art Gallery The Henry Art Gallery ("The Henry") is a contemporary art museum located on the University of Washington campus in Seattle, Washington. Located on the west edge of the university's campus along 15th Avenue N.E. in the University District, it wa ...

, Seattle (2008)
Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa SANAA

Towada Art Center The is an art museum in Towada, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. The museum was opened in 2008 as part of the Arts Towada Project, in an effort to revitalize the city. It features works from artists both inside and outside of Japan, including Yoko Ono ...

, Towada Aomori (2014)
Conceptions of Space: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Architecture

MoMA Moma may refer to: People * Moma Clarke (1869–1958), British journalist * Moma Marković (1912–1992), Serbian politician * Momčilo Rajin (born 1954), Serbian art and music critic, theorist and historian, artist and publisher Places ; Ang ...

, New York (2014)
Japan Architects 1945-2010
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art,

Kanazawa is the capital city of Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 466,029 in 203,271 households, and a population density of 990 persons per km2. The total area of the city was . Overview Cityscape File:もてな ...

(2014-2015)
A Japanese Constellation: Toyo Ito, SANAA, and Beyond

, New York (2016)

Notes

External links

Ryue Nishizawa lectures on Theory and Practice

Office of Ryue Nishizawa official website

SANAA official website

SANAA: Works 1998-2008 New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Video at VernissageTV.
Finding aid to the Ryue Nishizawa records

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