About the Author

Kazuyo Sejima graduated at the Japan Women's University and worked in the studio of Toyo Ito. In 1995, together with Ryue Nishizawa, she founded SANAA, the Tokyo studio that designed the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Serpentine Pavilion in London, the Christian Dior Building in Omotesando (Tokyo), the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa. In 2000 she was the curator for the Japanese Pavilioin at the 7th International Architecture Exhibition of the Biennale. She has taught at Princeton University and at the Polytechnique de Lausanne and is currently a lecturer at Keio University. She's been awarded the 2010 Pritzker Architecture Prize.