Kazuyo Sejima made a career in technology at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Kazuyo Sejima as Japanese architect (1956-).
Kazuyo Sejima was born at Hitachi in 1956. Her recorded nationality is Japan. She was educated at Japan Women's University and Ibaraki Prefectural Mito First High School.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
Kazuyo Sejima is described as architect.
Her affiliations include Tama Art University, Japan Women's University and University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Her principal work is Institut Valencià d'Art Modern. The engineer's achievement usually disappears into infrastructure, which is the point.
Her recorded fields of work are architecture.
Formal recognition came in the shape of the Pritzker Architecture Prize (2010).
Working from Japan shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have her, the language the work first appeared in.
Kazuyo Sejima is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.
Achievements
- Pritzker Architecture Prize — 2010
- Notable work: Institut Valencià d'Art Modern
- Affiliated with Tama Art University, Japan Women's University and University of Applied Arts Vienna
- Educated at Japan Women's University, Ibaraki Prefectural Mito First High School and Sukegawa Junior High School
- Worked as architect
