Ryue Nishizawa and Kazuyo Sejima, 2010 recipients of the Pritzker Prize

Just announced, this year not one but two architects have been awarded the prestigious Pritzker Prize for architecture. Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizama, the lead architects of the Japanese firm SANAA, were praised by the jury thus, “For architecture that is simultaneously delicate and powerful, precise and fluid, ingenious but not overly or overtly clever; for the creation of buildings that successfully interact with their contexts and the activities they contain, creating a sense of fullness and experiential richness; for a singular architectural language that springs from a collaborative process that is both unique and inspirational; for their notable completed buildings and the promise of new projects together.”

New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 2007

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