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Ryue Nishizawa

1966– · Japanese architect · Japan

The circular 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, co-designed by Ryue Nishizawa.
Keemz · Licence: CC BY 2.0 · Source

Bio

Developed light, porous architecture with an emphasis on landscape, movement and collective space.

Key works

  • Towada Art Center
  • co-founder SANAA

THE RETHINK

Ryue Nishizawa helps us rethink architecture as more than the production of buildings: their work shows how decisions about structure, space, materials, context or public life can change what a society considers possible.

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Ryue Nishizawa changed architecture through ideas, buildings and approaches that still shape how we understand space.
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