Sanaa Architects/
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa
Kazuyo Sejima/Ryue Nishizawa
The acclaimed Japanese architectural practice SANAA (an acronym for ‘Sejima and Nishizawa and Associates’) was established in 1995 by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. SANAA’s pioneering buildings have created an architecture that marries aesthetic simplicity with technical complexity.
SANAA’s most recent major project is the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. In 2009 they designed the Serpentine Gallery Summer Pavilion in London. Other notable projects include the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa in Japan and the Louvre-Lens in France.