Présentation de l'éditeur :
SANAA,
the collaborative office of architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa
is a multidisciplinary practice that extends beyond traditional
practice into the realms of landscape, interior, exhibition, furniture,
and product design. Internationally celebrated for what one critic
terms its “luminous minimalism,” the Tokyo-based partnership has built
an award-winning oeuvre of buildings and projects that is unusually
varied—from the circular maze of the 21st Century Museum of
Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan, to the almost-dematerialized
Christian Dior building in Tokyo’s Omotesando shopping district. Even
though SANAA rejects a recognizable formal style, the firm reveals a
thematic consistency that transcends site and program. Light takes
center stage in all of Sejima and Nishizawa’s work: A small café in the
midst of a park is constructed out of little more than glass and
mirrors that make little distinction between interior and exterior
spaces; a museum for traditional Japanese painting snakes along a
wooded mountainside, glass walls etched by vertical lines that
simultaneously obscure and frame views onto a historic structure. The
staggered and stacked boxes of the New Museum of Contemporary Art on
New York’s rough-and-tumble Bowery, just being constructed, will
feature 60,000-square-feet of usable space with only six
windows—something that sounds claustrophobic before it becomes clear
that its seemingly random stacking accommodates skylights that will
flood the galleries with light during the daytime and the façade with
artificial light at night.
Yuko
Hasegawa is Chief Curator of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary
Art in Kanazawa, Japan, and serves as a board member of the
International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art. She
was a member of the international jury for the Venice Biennale, 1999,
Artistic Director of the 7th International Istanbul Biennial, 2001, a
member of the jury for the Hugo Boss Prize, 2002, Co-Curator of the 4th
Shanghai Biennale, 2002, and commissioner of Japanese Pavilion of 50th
Venice Biennale, 2003. She teaches art history at Tokyo National
University of Fine Arts and Music and has authored books on artists
Matthew Barney, Carsten Nicolai, and James Turrell.
table of contents
“An Architecture of Consciousness of the 21st Century,” essay by Yuko Hasegawa
SANAA: O Museum, N Museum, Park Café, De Kunstlinie theater and
cultural center, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Christian
Dior Omotesando Building, Pavilion for the Toledo Art Museum, Extension
to the Institue of Modern Art Valencia, Zollverein Design School, New
Museum of Contemporary Art, Novartis office, Naoshima Ferry Terminal,
Learning Center for Lausanne’s Federal Polytechnic School
Kazuyo Sejima & Associates: Studio Platform II, Saishunkan Women’s
Dormitory, Gifu Kitigata Apartment Building, Small House, House in a
Plum Garden, Onishi Civic Center
Office of Ryue Nishizawa: Weekend House, Kamakura House, Moriyama House, A House, Naoshima Museum
List of works
Biography
Selected bibliography
Picture credits
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