Architecture style
Can you describe an evolution in your work from you first project to the present day? S: Probably our interest now is more how to organize ‘a program’ within a building - the layout（布局） of rooms and how people move inside. But also how to keep a relationship between the ‘program’ and the outside and then how the outside fits to the surroundings. In each project we have different requirements and the site is different, we try to find our way. N: We have more three-dimensional changes, located outside of the two-dimensional wall. this is what we feel recently as an evolution from the beginning period.
Brief introduction • Kazuyo Sejima (妹岛和世 Sejima Kazuyo, born 1956,
Ibaraki prefecture, Japan) 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.
Brief introduction
• Ryue Nishizawa(西泽立卫
Nishizawa Ryūe, born 1966, Kanagawa Prefecture) is an award-winning Japanese architect based in Tokyo. He is a graduate of Yokohama National University, and is director of his own firm, Office of Ryue Nishizawa, established in 1997. In 1995, he co-founded the firm SANAA (Sejima and Nishizawa and Associates) with the architect Kazuyo Sejima. In 2010, he was awarded the Pritzker Prize, together with Sejima.
Architecture style
• “White vagueness（暧昧）” of Kazuyo Sejima 暧昧） • Concept of architecture：Pay more attention ： to human’s behavior, then change the common room into a place for meditation（冥 想）. • Main design elements: white、ultrathin（超薄） 超薄） transparent（透明）、；lithe（轻盈） 透明） 轻盈）
Brief introduction • 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.
Works analysis
• 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa, Japan • For a rest there is a row of SANAA “Rabbit” chairs inside, and a circle of SANAA “Drop” chairs outside. •
Main works
• Gifu kitagata apartment,Gifu,Japan(1994-2000)Kazuyo Sejima & Associates • Women’s Dormitory Saishunkan seiyaku,Kumamoto,Japan(1990-91) Kazuyo Sejima & Associates • Extension of The Institute of Modern art,Valencia,Spain(2002).by SANAA • DeKunstlinie Theater and Cultural Center, Almere, The Netherlands(2007).by SANAA • others
Works analysis
• 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa, Japan • The exhibition area is fragmented(分割为) into numerous galleries(画廊) that are all embedded(嵌入)in the circulationspace(流通空间). This offers flexibility(灵活性)to the museum routing and specificity(独特性)to the gallery spaces. • Besides, The circulation spaces are also used as additional(额外 的) exhibition areas.
Works analysis
• 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa, Japan (金泽 世纪现代艺术博物馆) 金泽21世纪现代艺术博物馆 • The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art is located in the center of Kanazawa, one of the nation’s historical centers, on the north coast of Japan. The building contains community gathering spaces, a library, lecture hall, children‘s workshop, as well as museum spaces. The variously proportioned(比例) rooms placed inside the circular building ---just like a chain of islands floating on a circular lake.
Works analysis
• 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa, Japan • Gallery spaces are of various proportions(比例)and light conditions - from bright daylight through glass ceilings(天花板), to spaces with no natural light source. Their height range from 4 meters to 12 meters. •
Architecture style
• Methods of design：They hope to create a ： concrete lump（块） inside the transparent space which is surrounded by glasses. This privacy（私密） lump sometimes is very low and 私密） far from the roof. As a result, there is no influence of the consecutiveness（连续性）with 连续性） the entire space.
Hale Waihona Puke Architecture style
Q: Describe your style, like a good friend of yours would describe it... N: Coherent（连贯的）, consistent, always doing the same thing. One of our contents big concerns is how to create a relation between the inside and outside. S: And also proportion（均衡）. I mean not ‘good proportion’ but the size and if it fits into that area. When we use glass or a screen or a concrete wall, this depends mostly on the area.