Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa established the SANAA (Sejima And Nishizawa And Associates) in 1995 in Tyoko. In 2010, Sejima and Nishizawa were awarded the Pritzker Prize.
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Their projects have universally admired exactitude and clarity. While their works pursue a consistent ethos of transparency which is not merely visual, material or literal. Since the beginning of their practice, Sejima and Nishizawa have stated, their pursuit of transparency is more than physical; it is about the clarity of programmatic relations and explicitness of spatial organization."
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Engineered Transparency The Techinical, Visual, and Spatial Effects of Glass
By challenging our understanding of transparency, horizon and gravity, they produce a obvious tension that is dependent on the observer's position. Their works, such as the Flower House and the Okurayama Apartments always belie the sophistication of mechanical and structural system.
Even in the models,
the expected clarity of Plexiglas is undone by an overwhelming whiteness that hides edges and boundaries. Beyond the blurring of inside and outside, floor and ceiling, the observer is often left wondering how the columns could possibly be so thin, or whether the wall are really made of glass.
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