Kazuyo Sejima

names

Kazuyo Sejima
妹島和世

date/location

* 1956 Ibaraki

comment

Japanese architect, active in Tokyo.

time line

period	description
from 1981	Joined Toyo Ito Architect & Associates
1981	Graduated from Japan Women's University with M. Arch. degree
from 1987	Established: Kazuyo Sejima & Associates
from 1995	Gastvorlesungen an der Japanischen Frauenuniversität, Science University, Tokyo.
from 1995	Büropartnerschaft mit Ryue Nishizawa.

description

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awards:
1988: Selected for Design Competition - MCH House
Kajima Prize, SD Review 1988
1989: Special Prize for Residential Architecture, Tokyo Architect Association
The Yosioka Prize, the Japan Architect
2nd Prize, BL International Industrial Design Competition
1990: Honorable mention, la Maison de la Culture de Japon, Paris
SD Prize, SD Review 1990
1991: 2nd Prize, Nasunogahara Harmony Hall Design Competition
1992: 2nd Prize, GID Competition '92
2nd Prize, Commercial Space Design Award '94
Awarded Japan Institute of Architects »Young Architect of the Year«
1994: Grand Prize, Commercial Space Design Award '94
Awarded »Architecture of the Year '94«
1995: 3rd Prize, Yokohama International Port Terminal Design Competition

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projects

Rolex Learning Center
2007-10
Lausanne, Switzerland
Zollverein School of Managment and Design
2006
Essen, Germany
Glass Pavilion, Toledo Museum of Art
2006
Toledo, United States of America
New Museum of Contemporary Art
2006
New York City, United States of America
WSJ-158 Office Building
2005-06
Basle, Switzerland
Theater and Cultural Center De Kunstlinie
1998-2006
Almere, Netherlands
Christian Dior Shop
2004
港区 (Minato-ku), Japan
Contemporary Art Museum
1999-2004
Kanazawa, Japan
Stadtentwicklungsprogramm in Gifu
-2002
Gifu, Japan
Small House
1999-2001
港区 (Minato-ku), Japan
Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst
1997-2001 [project ?]
Sydney, Australia
Mutsukawa Day Care Center for the Elders
1997-2000
Yokohama, Japan
Center for the Contemporary Arts
1998-99 [project]
Rome, Italy
O-Museum - Ogasawara Museum
1995-99
Iida, Japan
Opaque Ginza
1998
中央区 (Chūō-ku), Japan
New Campus Center for the Illinois Institute of Technology
1997-98 [project]
Chicago, United States of America
Rest Station in Koga Park
1996-98
Koga, Japan
U Building
1996-98
Ushiku, Japan
Gifu Kitagata Apartment Building
1994-98
, Japan
S-House
1997
Okayama, Japan
Multi-Media Workshop IAMAS
1996-97
Oogaki, Japan
K Building
1996-97
Hitachi, Japan
M-House
1996-97
渋谷区 (Shibuya-ku), Japan
Kumanokodo Nakahechi Museum - N Museum
1995-97
Nakahechi, Japan
Kinbasha Pachinka Parlor III
1995-96
Hitachiohta, Japan
Y-House
1993-94
Katsuura, Japan
Koban Police Station
1993-94
Chofu, Japan
Villa in the forest
1992-94
Chino, Japan
Kinbasha Pachinko Parlor II
1993
Naka, Japan
Kinbasha Pachinko Parlor I
1991-93
Hitachi, Japan
N-House
1991 [project]
Kumamoto, Japan
Saishunkan Seiyaku ladies residence
1990-91
Kumamoto, Japan
Platform II
1988-90
Kitagoma, Japan
Platform I
1987-88
Katsuura, Japan
hhstyle.com-Filiale Harajuku
港区 (Minato-ku), Japan
Renovation of the Antique Quarter
1998
Salerno, Italy

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address

Japan
Staat
Tokyo
prefecture
Tokyo
county (second-order administrative division)
7-A Shinagawa-Soko | 2-2-35 Higashi-Shinagawa
street
workvoicetel:+81 3 34501754
phone
work+81 3 34501757
fax
are-sanaa-qnfrm[at]jxicdam-sanaa.co.jp
email
http://www.sanaa.co.jp
website / homepage

publications

Matter & Mind in Architecture
Gregotti Associati, K. Sejima, J. I. Leiviskä, J. Navarro Baldeweg, Patkau Architects, W. Wang, G. Schildt, H. Harries, P. Tuukkanen, S. Saariaho
The Finnish Building Centre; 2001
Kazuyo Sejima in Gifu
K. Sejima, R. Nishizawa
Actar; 2002
Saishunkan Seiyaku women's dormitory
in: Japan Architect (JA), 1991,4
K. Sejima
page 62–73
Platform II
in: Japan Architect (JA), 11-12/1990,403-404
K. Sejima
page 60–66
Kazuyo Sejima & Associates: Saishunkan Seiyaku Women's Dormitory, Kumamoto, design: 1990; construction: 1990-91
in: GA document, 1992,33
K. Sejima
page 66–79
Kazuyo Sejima & Associates: Platform III [house], Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan, design: 1989-90
in: GA houses, 1991,31
K. Sejima
page 18–19
Kazuyo Sejima & Associates: Pachinko Parlor, Hitachi, Ibaraki design: 1991-
in: GA document, 1992,33
K. Sejima
page 80–81
Kazuyo Sejima & Associates: Platform II. Kitakoma-gun, Yamanashi, Japan, 1988-90
in: GA houses, 1990,30
K. Sejima
page 80–89
Kazuyo Seijima
in: Japan Architect (JA), 11-12/1988,379-380
K. Sejima
page 82–83
My recent projects
in: Japan Architect (JA), 1992,6
K. Sejima
page 20–21
Special issue I: creative ms change dwelling house, dwelling house in the immediate future
in: Kenchiku bunka, 1992,552
T. Ito, K. Sejima, K. Iimura, K. Kuma, T. Kurosawa, S. Nii, S. Tahara, C. Ueno
page 31–62
Vom Sinn des Details - 16 Statements
in: Detail: Vom Sinn des Details | The Purpose of Details, 8/2000
K. Ackermann, R. Koolhaas, T. Ando, M. von Gerkan, Á. Siza, K. J. Schattner, T. Ito, K. Sejima, J. Schlaich, mvrdv, G. Perraudin, A. Hunt, C. Ingenhoven, M. Cucinella
page 1426–1438

reference

Matter & Mind in Architecture
Gregotti Associati, K. Sejima, J. I. Leiviskä, J. Navarro Baldeweg, Patkau Architects, W. Wang, G. Schildt, H. Harries, P. Tuukkanen, S. Saariaho
The Finnish Building Centre; 2001
Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa
Verlag Anton Pustet; 2003
Sejima+Nishizawa
El Croquis; 2001
El Croquis: Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa 1995-2000, 1/2000,99
El Croquis: Kazuyo Sejima 1988/1996, 1996,77(I)
The end of styles
in: World architecture, 1990,7
R. Miyake
page 73–75
- exhibition review
Special issue: a perspective toward the 90's from latest projects
in: Kenchiku bunka, 1992,543
page 39–83
The »Transfiguration« exhibition in Europalia Japan
in: Space design, 2/1990,305
D. Libeskind, S. Takamatsu, T. Ito, A. Boyarsky, N. Coates, H. Fuji, K. Irie, K. Ito, R. Miyake, S. Arakawa, Y. Saito
page 13–44
Japan: the '70s generation of architects has arrived
in: Architecture: the AIA journal, 9/1989
H. Watanabe
page 52–57