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Ryue Nishizawa
Born 1966 (age 57–58)
Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Nationality Japanese
Alma mater Yokohama National University
Occupation Architect
Awards Pritzker 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.

Career

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

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

Projects

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Name City State/Country Completed Other Information Image
Weekend House Usui Gunma, Japan 1998
House in Kamakura Kamakura Kanagawa, Japan 2001
Takeo Head Office Store Tokyo Tokyo, Japan 2001
Ichikawa Apartments Ichkawa Chiba, Japan 2001
Funabashi Apartment Building Funabashi Chiba, Japan 2004
Love Planet Museum Okayama, Japan 2003
Benesse Art Site Naoshima Office Naoshima Kagawa, Japan 2004
House A Tokyo Tokyo, Japan 2004
Moriyama House Tokyo Tokyo, Japan 2005
Naoshima Museum Naoshima Kagawa, Japan 2005
Towada Art Centre Towada Aomori, Japan 2005 Towada art center.JPG
Teshima Art Museum Toshima Kagawa, Japan 2010 Teshima Art Museum.jpg

Unbuilt

  • Video Pavilion, Kagawa, Japan, 2003

Honors

  • Venice Biennale Golden Lion, 2004.
  • Pritzker Prize, 2010.
  • Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal, 2019
  • Vernissage.tv, "SANAA: Works 1998-2008 New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York"
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