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Ryūe Nishizawa

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In this Japanese name, the family name is Nishizawa.
Ryue Nishizawa
Born1966 (age 5960)
Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
NationalityJapanese
Alma materYokohama National University
OccupationArchitect
AwardsPritzker Prize 2010

Ryue Nishizawa (西沢 立衛, Nishizawa Ryūe; born 1966) is a Japanese architect and university professor at Yokohama National University. Nishizawa won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2010.[1]

In 1995, he started a partnership with Kazuyo Sejima in Tokyo.[1] It was called SANAA.[2]

In 1997, he started the independent Office of Ryūe Nishizawa.[1]

Projects

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NameCityState/CountryCompletedOther InformationImage
Weekend House[3]UsuiGunma, Japan1998
House in Kamakura[4]KamakuraKanagawa, Japan2001
Takeo Head Office StoreTokyoTokyo, Japan2001
Ichikawa Apartments[5]IchkawaChiba, Japan2001
Funabashi Apartment Building[6]FunabashiChiba, Japan2004
Love Planet MuseumOkayama, Japan2003
Benesse Art Site Naoshima Office[7]NaoshimaKagawa, Japan2004
House A[8]TokyoTokyo, Japan2004
Moriyama House[9]TokyoTokyo, Japan2005
Naoshima MuseumNaoshimaKagawa, Japan2005
Towada Art Centre[10]TowadaAomori, Japan2005
Teshima Art Museum[11]ToshimaKagawa, Japan2010
  • Video Pavilion,[12] Kagawa, Japan, 2003
  • Venice Biennale Golden Lion, 2004.[1]
  • Pritzker Prize, 2010.[1]
  • Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal, 2019[13]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa2010 Laureates, Biography"; retrieved 2012-3-1.
  2. SANAA is an acronym. SANAA stands for "Sejima And Nishizawa And Associates".
  3. ArchSource, "Weekend House" Archived 2012-06-29 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-3-1.
  4. ArchSource, "House in Kamakura" Archived 2012-06-28 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-3-1.
  5. ArchSource, "Ichikawa Apartments" Archived 2012-06-29 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-3-1.
  6. ArchSource, "Funabashi Apartment Building" Archived 2012-06-29 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-3-1.
  7. Setouchi International Art Festival, "Ryue Nishizawa" Archived 2012-06-24 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-3-1.
  8. ArchSource, "House A" Archived 2012-06-29 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-3-1.
  9. ArchSource, "Moriyama House" Archived 2012-06-29 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-3-1.
  10. ArchSource, "Towada Art Centre" Archived 2012-06-29 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-3-1.
  11. Setouchi International Art Festival, "Teshima Art Museum"[permanent dead link]; retrieved 2012-3-1.
  12. ArchSource, Video Pavilion" Archived 2012-06-29 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-3-1.
  13. "Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medalists in Architecture". UVA Today. 2019-03-06. Retrieved 2019-03-09.

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