Ryue Nishizawa

born February 7th, 1966

(西沢 立衛 Nishizawa Ryūe, born 1966 in Kanagawa Prefecture) is a 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 became the youngest recipient ever of the Pritzker Prize, together with Sejima.[1]

Projects
Weekend House – 1997 to 1998 – Gunma, Japan
Takeo Head Office Store – 1999 to 2000 – Tokyo, Japan
House at Kamakura – 1999 to 2001 – Kanagawa, Japan
Apartment Building at Ichikawa – 2001 to Present – Chiba, Japan
Eda Apartment Building – 2002 to Present – Kanagawa, Japan
Funabashi Apartment Building – 2002 to 2004 – Chiba, Japan
Moriyama House – 2002 to 2005 – Tokyo, Japan
Love Planet Museum – 2003 – Okayama, Japan
Video Pavilion – 2003 to Present – Kagawa, Japan
House in China – 2003 to Present – Tianjin, China
Office Building, Benesse Art Site Naoshima – 2004 – Kagawa, Japan
A House – 2004 to 2007 – Tokyo, Japan
Honmura Lounge & Archive – 2005 to Present – Kagawa, Japan
Towada Art Center – 2008 – Aomori, Japan
Teshima Art Museum – 2010 – Kagawa, Japan
Garden and House – 2013 – Tokyo, Japan

References
Gallery MA (2003). Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA Works 1995–2003. Toto Shuppan. ISBN 978-4-88706-224-5
GA (2005). Sejima Kazuyo + Nishizawa Ryue Dokuhon. A.D.A. Edita. ISBN 4-87140-662-8
GA (2005). GA ARCHITECT 18 Sejima Kazuyo + Nishizawa Ryue. A.D.A. Edita. ISBN 4-87140-426-9
Yuko Hasegawa (2006). Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa: SANAA. Phaidon Press. ISBN 978-1-904313-40-3
Agustin Perez Rubio (2007). SANAA Houses: Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa. Actar. ISBN 978-84-96540-70-5
Joseph Grima and Karen Wong (Eds) (2008) Shift: SANAA and the New Museum. Lars Müller Publishers. ISBN 978-3-03778-140-1
Thomas Daniell (2008). After the Crash: Architecture in Post-Bubble Japan. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 978-1-56898-776-7
Notes
Pritzker Prize 2010 Media Kit, retrieved 29 March 2010