--- title: "Kazuyo Sejima" url: "https://www.stylepark.com/en/designer/kazuyo-sejima" language: "en" type: "designer" description: "Individual designer items from Kazuyo Sejima ✓ Wide range of products & designs ➜ Get inspired now" published: "2001-05-01T00:00:00+02:00" modified: "2026-04-26T17:12:48+02:00" image: "https://www.stylepark.com/apple-touch-icon.png" --- # Kazuyo Sejima - [Biography](https://www.stylepark.com/en/designer/kazuyo-sejima) - [Products](https://www.stylepark.com/en/products/designer/kazuyo-sejima) - [Manufacturer](https://www.stylepark.com/en/designer/kazuyo-sejima/manufacturer) - [Articles](https://www.stylepark.com/en/designer/kazuyo-sejima/contributions) - [Website](http://www.sanaa.co.jp) Address: ## Kazuyo Sejima SANAA [www.sanaa.co.jp](http://www.sanaa.co.jp) Biography Kazuyo Sejima was born in the Prefecture of Ibaraki, Japan, in 1956 and graduated at Japan Women's University, where she obtained a master's degree in 1981. After working with Toyo Ito & Associates, from 1981 to 1987, she set up Kazuio Sejima & Associates in 1987. Her early designs already showed the poetic treatment of modern architectural materials and techniques that is the hallmark of her work. Dating from this early period are the small-scale constructions called "Pl atforms", the Saishunkan Seiyaku Women's Dormitory, the Castelbajac Sport store in Hitachi, and Panchinko Parlor in Naka. Features shared by all these projects include rigorously defined elementary spaces and volumes, and a penchant f or glass, aluminium, metal mesh and sculptural surfaces. Her close working relationship with Ryue Nishizawa dates from 1995. She has built numerous houses, commercial and office buildings, apartment blocks and museums in Tokyo and other Japanese cities, a nd has been successful in many international competitions, including those for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia (1997, 1st prize), the ITT Student Center in Chicago (1997-98, one of 5 finalists), the Stadstheater in Almere, The Netherla nds (1998, 1st prize), the centre for Contemporary Art in Rome (1998-99, among 15 finalists), and the revitalisation of the old centre of Salerno (Italy, 1999, 1st prize). Articles about Kazuyo Sejima [DESIGN Prada invites 11/19/2018 Architects Cini Boeri, Elizabeth Diller and Kazuyo Sejima have created experimental accessories for Prada.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/prada-boeri-diller-sejima) [MAGAZINE Icy setting instead of earthquakes 10/28/2011 The prominent line-up for Munich’s “Seismographs of Architecture” symposium kindled great expectations. Kazuyo Sejima, Matthias Sauerbruch, Brendan Macfarlane and others traveled to the Bavarian capital specially for the occasion. Since the event hinged not on dialog but on lectures, many a question went unanswered. And the freezing cold draughty glass foyer of the Academy of Fine Arts certainly placed the audience’s patience under additional strain.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/icy-setting-instead-of-earthquakes) [MAGAZINE On amazement and a cat in the arsenals 9/1/2010 Kazuyo Sejima, the Director of the 12th Venice Architecture Biennial, has pulled something special out of the bag with the central exhibition "People meet in Architecture". She has managed to create an atmosphere of light-heartedness in which the opportunities afforded by contemporary architecture as well as the latter's limits are on show without glossing over the weighty issues.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/on-amazement-and-a-cat-in-the-arsenals)