Week7 2010 Pritzker Prize---Japanese got it!

The Pritzker Architecture Prize usually goes to just one architect. But this year, two Japanese partners are being honored. Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, partners in the Japanese architectural firm Sanaa, have won the 2010 Pritzker Architecture Prize.

I read a lot of related news and their projects and want to understand what the personality of their architectures is.This is the jury’s citation. “They explore like few others the phenomenal properties of continuous space, lightness, transparency and materiality to create a subtle synthesis,”

I think the Japanese team’s architectures are deceptively simple. In all of their projects, I love this architecture best---Zollverein School of management and design

I think the Japanese team’s architectures are deceptively simple. In all of their projects, I love this architecture best.

The design, the oversized cube, which measures 35 meters by 35 meters and is 35 meters high. The building has four floors with ceilings of varying height as well as a roof garden. As the designer said,” the idea of stacking open floor plans was developed in compliance with the demands made by the various functions.”

Japanese’ design is usually have a simple exterior. However, its interior is a wide and complex space.

The ground floor has a multi-level presentation hall, exhibition and foyer areas for public use, and a café. On the second floor there is a Design Studio, which is a production level. The library is on the third floor together with open seminar rooms and several separate, quiet workplaces. The fourth floor is the office level, the working areas are divided by glass walls.

For my part, there is still a traditional Japanese architectural consciousness in this team, including simplicity, delicacy as well as space division.

Link http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/29/arts/design/29pritzker.html