Architecture Book Description Publication Date: June 16, 2011 Recent projects by the offices of Sanaa, Kazuyo Sejima & Associates and Ryue Nishizawa. Projects include the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London, the Rolex Learning Center in Lausanne, and a Multifunctional Building for the Serralves Foundation in Porto, the Neruda Tower in Guadalajara, the Elche Palmerial Viewpoint in Alicante, The Shakujii Apartments in Tokyo, the Hyundai Card Hall in Seoul, the Okurayama Apartments in Yokohama, the Carina Store in Aoyama, the Toyota Aizuma Hall in Aichi, a villa in Hayama (Kanagawa), an Office Building in Shibaura (Tokyo), the Towada Art Center in Aomori, the Teshima Art Museum in Kagawa, the Inujima Art House Project and others. Included is an interview with Sejima and Nishizawa by Mohsen Mostafavi.
Architect: Ryue Nishizawa : Sanaa Built: 2005 Location: 3-21-5 Nishi-Kamata, Ota-ku Country: japan
SANAA (Sejima and Nishizawa and Associates) is an architectural firm. It was founded in 1995 by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. In 2010, Sejima and Nishizawa were awarded the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honor~wiki
Projects by Sejima and Sanaa including plans for urban
development in Madrid as part of the bid for the Olympic 2012, the
Japanese Pavilion at the 7th Architecture Venice Biennial, the Issey
Miyake and Prada shop interiors in Tokyo as well as residences,
exhibitions and offices. They have completed a prolific amount of
projects throughout Europe and Japan. All are presented here, full page,
on glossy paper. Includes sketches and short descriptive texts.
During three spring seasons between 2006 and 2008, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa taught at the School of Architecture at Princeton.
The SANAA Studios explored Japan's contemporary society as a context for architecture and considered its particular perspective on space, the personal and the public realm. Design exercises were situated within the specific demographics and social variables of three distinct sites in Japan.
This book captures the atmosphere in which the studios were conducted and registers some of the findings gained out of exploring the office, its methods and its context.
By combining analyses, essays, documentation and design proposals, it asks: What can we learn from SANAA? It tries to frame SANAA's compassionate search for new architectures within a larger societal context. For this publication, Dutch architectural photographer Iwan Baan has revisited the three sites where the studios took place to capture the spirit of its context and the SANAA buildings in use.
About the Author
Florian Idenburg, Gründer und Partner von Solid Objectives Idenburg Liu [so-il], New York City und bis 2007 Project Architect bei Kazuyo Sejima +Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA in Tokyo.
SANAA's work was included in the exhibition "City of Girls" in the Japanese Pavilion at the 2000 Venice Biennale and in the Garden Cafe at the 7th International Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey.
In addition, their work has been exhibited at Zumtobel Staff-Lichtforum, Vienna, Austria; Institut Valencia d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain; Zeche Zollverein, Essen, Germany; Gallery MA, Tokyo, Japan; N-museum, Wakayama, Japan and New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.
SANAA has been awarded the Golden Lion for the most remarkable work in the exhibition Metamorph in the 9th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia in 2004, the 46th Mainichi Shinbun Arts Award (Architecture Category) in 2005, and the Schock Prize in the visual arts, also in 2005. In 2010, Sejima and Nishizawa were awarded the Pritzker Prize, the highest of honours in architecture read more on wiki
Architecture Book Description Publication Date: October 10, 2007 | ISBN-10: 8488386451 | ISBN-13: 978-8488386458 Providing a comprehensive overview of the work of this celebrated Japanese practice and the two architects driving it, this sizeable volume combines three, until now out-of-print numbers, in one edition. Thoroughly illustrated - with full page photographs, plans, details and explanatory texts - a total of 59 works and projects are examined. Everything from residential designs, such as the Y' house and House in a Plum Grove,' to museums and commercial projects, such as the N' Museum in Nakachi, and the Christian Dior' building, Omotesando, are included, along with competition entries and unrealized buildings.
Kazuyo Sejima 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. ~ wiki
SANAA's housing projects, both finished (House A, S House, House in a Plum Grove, Small House and Moriyama House), and unfinished projects (Flower House, Garden & House, Seijo Apartments, Ichikawa Apartments, House in China and Eda Apartments). SANAA's architecture embraces complexities within deceptively simple appearances. It has many elements that are impossible to understand unless actually experienced. In contrast with modern architecture, SANAA has many aspects that cannot be revealed in representative media such as plans, models, and photographs. The representations of their architectural works incorporate ambiguity and chronological elements. This characteristic makes Sanaa one of the most innovative offices in the current architectural panorama.
Product Details
Paperback: 162 pages Publisher: Actar/Musac (July 15, 2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 8496540707 ISBN-13: 978-8496540705 Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 7.9 x 0.9 inches