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The Guru Track
Denise Scott Brown’s essay, “Room at the Top? Sexism and the Star System in Architecture”…became topical…with the selection of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA, as winners of this year’s Pritzker Prize…one might ask if they are really any … Continue reading
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Meditations on SANAA’s Pritzker…
The Unbearable Lightness of Being? Nada. This is the spiritually sensual lightness of being in building, 21st-century Zen aesthetics, brought to you via the double-edged samurai sword of high-tech design tools and materials and alchemized Japanese vernacular art. Thank you, Ando, … Continue reading
How to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize:
Practice, practice, practice (and don’t be shy about nominating yourself); Pendulum may be swinging against once-revolutionary designs; An interview with the new Pritzker Prize winners: Their occasional arguments, advice for young architects and what one of them wanted to be … Continue reading
SANAA’s Rolex Learning Center opens in Lausanne
SANAA won the competition to design the Rolex Learning Center in Lausanne in 2004, which acts as the main point of entry to the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne university campus. Named after the watch company (which provided a large … Continue reading
Sejima to direct Venice Biennale
by William Menking – The president of the Venice Biennale, Paola Barrata, announced this morning that the director of the 12th International Architecture Exhibition will be Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima of SANAA Architects. Last week, we reported rumors that the … Continue reading
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Tagged Kazuyo Sejima, Liz Diller, SANAA, Venice Biennale
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Silver Serpentine
via BDOnline.co.uk Tom Dyckhoff, The Times - In most years you can spot the Serpentine Gallery’s Pavilion a mile off. Every summer its director, Julia Peyton-Jones, and the curator, Hans Ulrich Obrist, invite a contemporary architect untested in Britain to … Continue reading
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Sejima and Nishizawa of SANAA to design this summer’s Serpentine Pavilion
The temporary building, which will sit outside the London gallery in Kensington Gardens for three months, will be the practice’s first structure to be built in England. Sejima and Nishizawa founded Tokyo-based firm SANAA (Sejima + Nishizawa and Associates) in … Continue reading
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Tagged AJ, Nishizawa, SANAA, Sejima, serpentine pavilion, The Architect's Journal
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Japan’s Sanaa to design this year’s Serpentine Pavilion
This year’s Serpentine Pavilion in Kensington Gardens will be designed by Tokyo practice Sanaa, it has been confirmed. The temporary structure, which will be located outside the Serpentine Gallery for three months, is the first scheme to be built in … Continue reading