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Kazuyo Sejima (妹島 和世, Sejima Kazuyo?, born 1956, Ibaraki prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese architect. After studying at Japan Women's University and working in the office of Toyo Ito, in 1987 she founded Kazuyo Sejima and Associates. In 1995 she founded the Tokyo-based firm SANAA (Sejima and Nishizawa and Associates) together with her former employee Ryue Nishizawa. Sejima has been appointed Director of the Architecture Sector for the Venice Biennale, for which she will curate the 12th Annual International Architecture Exhibition, to be held in 2010. She is the first woman ever selected for this position. In 2010 she was awarded the Pritzker Prize, together with Ryue Nishizawa.[1]
[edit] Projects by Kazuyo Sejima and Associates
Onishi Civic Center (2003–05)
- Platform I Vacation House – 1987 to 1988 – Chiba, Japan
- Platform II Studio – 1988 to 1990 – Yamanachi, Japan
- Platform III House (Not Built/Project Only) – 1989 to 1990 – Tokyo, Japan
- Castelbajac Sports Store – 1990 to 1991 – Kanagawa, Japan
- Saishunkan Seiyaku Women's Dormitory – 1990 to 1991 – Kumamoto, Japan
- N House – 1990 to 1992 – Kumamoto, Japan
- An Apartment Building (Not Built/Project Only) – 1991 – Osaka, Japan
- Nasumoahara Harmony Hall (Not Built/Project Only) – 1991 – Tochigi, Japan
- Pachinko Parlor I – 1991 to 1993 – Ibaraki, Japan
- Villa in the Forest – 1992 to 1994 – Nagano, Japan
- Pachinko Parlor II – 1993 – Ibaraki, Japan
- Y House – 1993 to 1994 – Chiba, Japan
- Police Office in Chofu Station – 1993 to 1994 – Tokyo, Japan
- Service Center at the Tokyo Expo 96 (Not Built/Project Only) – 1994 to 1995 – Tokyo, Japan
- Yokohama International Port Terminal (Not Built/Project Only) – 1994 – Kanagawa, Japan
- Gifu Kitagata Apartment Building – 1994 to 2000 – Gifu, Japan
- Pachinko Parlor III – 1995 to 1996 – Ibaraki, Japan
- U Office Building – 1996 to 1998 – Ibaraki, Japan
- Small House – 1999 to 2000 – Tokyo, Japan
- Kozankaku Student Residence – 1999 to 2000 – Ibaraki, Japan
- hhstyle.com Store – 1999 to 2000 – Tokyo, Japan
- Asahi Shimbun Yamagata Office Building – 2000 to 2002 – Yamagata, Japan
- House in a Plum Grove – 2001 to 2003 – Tokyo, Japan
- Onishi Civic Center – 2003 to 2005 – Gunma, Japan
- Theater and Artscentre- 2007 – Almere, The Netherlands
[edit] Professorship
Sejima teaches as a Visiting Professor, both at Tama Art University and Keio University in Tokyo. Together with Nishizawa, from 2005 to 2008, she held the Jean Labatut Professorship at the School of Architecture at Princeton University, in Princeton, New Jersey in the United States, where she has also served on the advisory council for several years.[citation needed]
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1956 |
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Ibaraki prefecture, Japan |
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