Architect

Kazuyo Sejima

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

Born 1956

Japanese

Tokyo, Japan

museum cultural building education library campus building glass aluminum steel

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Gallery

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

Gallery

Kazuyo Sejima 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

Works

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Bureau

SANAA

bureau · Tokyo, Japan

Role: founder

Years: 1995

Founder relationship

Selected works

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Work

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

2004 · Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

Museum

Kazuyo Sejima · Ryue Nishizawa

Work

Rolex Learning Center

2010 · Lausanne, Switzerland

Library and learning center

Kazuyo Sejima · Ryue Nishizawa

Books

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Book

SANAA: Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa

SANAA, Mohsen Mostafavi · 2006

Actar · Barcelona

lightness · museums · open plans

Related architects

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Ryue Nishizawa

Born 1966 · Tokyo, Japan

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