Ryue Nishizawa

Ryue Nishizawa
Born	1966 (age 57–58) Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Alma mater	Yokohama National University
Occupation	Architect
Awards	Rolf Schock Prizes in Vsual Arts (2005) Pritzker Prize (2010)

Ryue Nishizawa (西沢 立衛, Nishizawa Ryūe, born 1966 in Kanagawa Prefecture) is a Japanese architect based in Tokyo. He is a graduate of Yokohama National University, and is director of his own firm, Office of Ryue Nishizawa, established in 1997. In 1995, he co-founded the firm SANAA (Sejima and Nishizawa and Associates) with the architect Kazuyo Sejima. In 2010, he became the youngest recipient ever of the Pritzker Prize, together with Sejima.

Projects

• Weekend House - 1997 to 1998 - Gunma, Japan
• Takeo Head Office Store - 1999 to 2000 - Tokyo, Japan
• House at Kamakura - 1999 to 2001 - Kanagawa, Japan
• Apartment Building at Ichikawa - 2001 to Present - Chiba, Japan
• Eda Apartment Building - 2002 to Present - Kanagawa, Japan
• Funabashi Apartment Building - 2002 to 2004 - Chiba, Japan
• Moriyama House - 2002 to 2005 - Tokyo, Japan
• Love Planet Museum - 2003 - Okayama, Japan
• Video Pavilion - 2003 to Present - Kagawa, Japan
• House in China - 2003 to Present - Tianjin, China
• 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
• The New Museum - New York, United States
• Towada Art Center - 2008 - Aomori, 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, Montreal (2008)
• Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2008)
• Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa SANAA, Towada Art Center, Towada Aomori (2014)
• Conceptions of Space: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Architecture, MoMA, New York (2014)
• Japan Architects 1945-2010, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (2014-2015)
• A Japanese Constellation: Toyo Ito, SANAA, and Beyond, MoMA, New York (2016)

Further reading

• Gallery MA (2003). Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA Works 1995–2003. Toto Shuppan. ISBN 978-4-88706-224-5

• GA (2005). Sejima Kazuyo + Nishizawa Ryue Dokuhon. A.D.A. Edita. ISBN 4-87140-662-8
• GA (2005). GA ARCHITECT 18 Sejima Kazuyo + Nishizawa Ryue. A.D.A. Edita. ISBN 4-87140-426-9
• Yuko Hasegawa (2006). Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa: SANAA. Phaidon Press. ISBN 978-1-904313-40-3
• Agustin Perez Rubio (2007). SANAA Houses: Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa. Actar. ISBN 978-84-96540-70-5
• Joseph Grima and Karen Wong (Eds) (2008) Shift: SANAA and the New Museum. Lars Müller Publishers. ISBN 978-3-03778-140-1
• Thomas Daniell (2008). After the Crash: Architecture in Post-Bubble Japan. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 978-1-56898-776-7
• Giovanna Borasi (Ed) 2008. Some ideas on living in London and Tokyo : Stephen Taylor, Ryue Nishizawa. Montreal: Canadian Centre for Architecture; Baden, Switzerland: Lars Müller. ISBN 978-0-92078-580-5, 978-3-03778-150-0

External links

• Ryue Nishizawa lectures on Theory and Practice
• Office of Ryue Nishizawa official website (in Japanese)
• SANAA official website (in Japanese)
• SANAA: Works 1998-2008 New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Video at VernissageTV.
• Finding aid to the Ryue Nishizawa records, Canadian Centre for Architecture.