close-up - Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa

By Bert de Muynck on January 9, 2008

The New Museum, New York. SAANA. Image by Iwan Baan.

The Japan Times, Sunday, Jan. 6, 2008

Japanese architecture office SANAA — centered on its principals, Kazuyo Sejima (born 1956) and her protege-turned-business-partner Ryue Nishizawa (born 1966) — was set up in 1995. Old-timers? Well, after winning several high-profile competitions around the turn of the century (the New Museum in Manhattan included), it’s only in the last three or four years that they have finally begun to emerge from their labyrinths and present the world with the tangible fruits of their amazing architectural vision.

Then came the Manhattan project: On Dec. 1, 2007 the New Museum of Contemporary Art opened to the public on the Bowery. Just before they headed off for those opening festivities, Sejima and Nishizawa sat down with The Japan Times to talk about that project and how they got where they are.

Read full interview at The Japan Times

website; SANAA

selection of SANAA-projects;
New Museum of Contemporary Art, US
Toledo Glass Pavilion, ES
Almere Theatre, NL

Bert de Muynck is an architect, writer and director of movingcities. He lives and works in Beijing, China. Bert de Muynck|movingcities