Ryue Nishizawa

Ryue Nishizawa is a Japanese architect. In 1995, he founded the architectural design firm SANAA (Sejima and Nishizawa and Associates) with Kazuyo Sejima. Together, their works include structures such as the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Serpentine Gallery in London, the Christian Dior Building in Omotesando, Tokyo, and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, among others. 

They were jointly awarded the Golden Lion at the 9th Venice Architecture Biennale (2004), The Berlin Kunstpreis (2007), and the Pritzker Prize for Architecture (2010). More recently, they have been awarded the Praemium Imperiale in Honour of Prince Takamatsu (2022) and the Royal Gold Medal by the Royal Institute of British Architects (2025). 

In 1997, Nishizawa established the Office of Ryue Nishizawa. Since then he has been awarded the Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ) Prize and the 25th Murano Togo Prize (2012), as well as the 5th Yoshizaka Takamasa Award (2019). He is currently a professor at Yokohama Graduate School of Architecture (Y-GSA).

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Jining Museum, Shandong, China, 2019, Office of Ryue Nishizawa R 1205   Rio Uematsu

 

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