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SANAA

The collaborative office of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, known for quietly radical public buildings and highly refined domestic space.

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1995

Tokyo, Japan

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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

SANAA 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

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Architects

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Works

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Books

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Job

Architectural Designer

SANAA · Tokyo, Japan

architectural design · in person · mid

saved.archi seed · portfolio

architectural design · museum · public circulation

museumcultural building

Posted Sat Apr 04

Job

Model Maker

SANAA · Tokyo, Japan

model making · in person · junior

saved.archi seed · portfolio

model making · museum · model studies

museuminstallation

Posted Thu Apr 02

Architects

Founders and members currently attached to this bureau

Architect

Kazuyo Sejima

Born 1956 · Tokyo, Japan

Role: founder

Founder relationship

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

Architect

Ryue Nishizawa

Born 1966 · Tokyo, Japan

Role: founder

Founder relationship

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

Selected works

Architectural works currently attached to this bureau

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

Work

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

2004 · Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

Museum

Kazuyo Sejima · Ryue Nishizawa

Rolex Learning Center

Work

Rolex Learning Center

2010 · Lausanne, Switzerland

Library and learning center

Kazuyo Sejima · Ryue Nishizawa

Books

Books and monographs currently attached to this bureau

Book

SANAA: Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa

SANAA, Mohsen Mostafavi · 2006

Actar · Barcelona

lightness · museums · open plans