Towada Art Center

Ryue Nishizawa

Ryue Nishizawa (b. 1966, Tokyo, Japan) studied architecture at Yokohama National University. In 1995, he opened SANAA with Kazuyo Sejima, and in 1997 he founded Office of Ryue Nishizawa. He is currently a professor at Yokohama Graduate School of Architecture (Y-GSA).

Sejima and Nishizawa were jointly awarded the Golden Lion at the 9th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2004. They both were awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2010, Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France in 2011, The Kunstpreis Berlin, Germany in 2007 and Praemium Imperiale in Honour of Prince Takamatsu in 2022.
Nishizawa　was awarded The Prize of Architectural Institute of Japan for in 2012, 25th Murano Togo Prize, Japan in 2012, and The 5th Yoshizaka Takamasa Award in 2019.

Major works include 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Japan)*, Rolex Learning Center, EPFL (Switzerland)＊, Louvre-Lens (France)＊, La Samaritaine (France)＊, Bocconi University New Urban Campus (Italy)＊, Sydney Modern Project (Australia)＊, Towada Art Museum (Japan), Teshima Art Museum (Japan), Hiroshi Senju Museum Karuizawa, and Jining Art Museum (China).

＊SANAA projects