SANAA Snags 2010 Pritzker Prize
The pair recently debuted the Rolex Learning Center in Switzerland last month.
From The New York Times -- Interior Design, 3/29/2010 12:00:00 AM
From The New York Times: Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, partners in the Japanese architectural firm SANAA, have won the 2010 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the profession’s highest honor.
“They explore like few others the phenomenal properties of continuous space, lightness, transparency and materiality to create a subtle synthesis,” the jury citation said. “Sejima and Nishizawa’s architecture stands in direct contrast with the bombastic and rhetorical. Instead, they seek the essential qualities of architecture that result in a much appreciated straightforwardness, economy of means and restraint in their work.”
The pair’s buildings include the acclaimed New Museum in New York, a sculptural stack of rectilinear boxes on the Bowery, which was completed in 2007. The first Sanaa project in the United States was a glass pavilion for the Toledo Museum of Art, completed in 2006. It holds the museum’s collection of glass artworks, reflecting that city’s history as a major center of glass production.
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