1956 Born in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
1981 Graduated from the Japan Women's University with a Master's Degree of Architecture. Joined Toyo Ito & Associates
1987 Founded Kazuyo Sejima and Associates
1988 Selected for a design contest - MCH House. Kashima Award, SD Review 1988
1989 Special Award for Residential Architecture, Tokyo Architecture Association Yosioka Award, The Japan Architect. 2nd Place, International Industrial Design Contest of the BL
1990 Honourable Mention, Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris, SD Award, 1990 SD Review
1991 2nd Place, Nasumoahara Harmony Hall Design Contest
1992 2nd Place, GID Contest '92. 2nd Place, Commercial Space Design Award. '94 Japan Institute of Architects 'Young Architect of the Year'
1994 Grand Prize, Commercial Space Design Award ’94. 'Awarded Architecture '94'
1995 3rd Place, Yokohama International Port Terminal Design Contest. Co-founded, along with Ryue Nishizawa, the firm SANAA (Sejima and Nishizawa and Associates).
2000 Erich Schelling Architecture Award, Karlsruhe, Germany
2010 Pritzker Architecture Award.
Kayuzo has taught at several architecture schools:
• Professor at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan 2002.
• Visiting Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland. 2006.
• Visiting Professor at Princeton University, USA 2006
Iñaki Ábalos (San Sebastián, 1956) is an architect from Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM), PhD in architecture and professor of architectural projects at the ETSAM. He was Kenzo Tange Professor (2009), and since 2010 he has been a visiting professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design (GSD). A founding partner of Ábalos&Herreros (1984- 2006) and Ábalos+Sentkiewicz architects, he has been a member of the scientific committee of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal (since 2005) and member of the board of directors of the Barcelona Institute of Architecture (since 2008). He is director of the Laboratory of Contemporary Landscapes and Techniques (since 2002), and in 2009 the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) granted him its international membership. He has taught at the Architectural Association (London), the EPF (Lausanne) and at the US universities of Columbia, Princeton and Cornell. He is the author of Le Corbusier. Rascacielos (Madrid City Council, 1988), Técnica y arquitectura (Nerea, Madrid, 1992) and Natural artificial (ExitLMI, Madrid, 1999), with Juan Herreros; and La buena vida (Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 2000), the two volumes of Atlas pintoresco (Editorial Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 2005 and 2007), of the monograph Alejandro de la Sota (Architects Credit Union Foundation, Barcelona, 2009; with Josep Llinàs and Moisés Puente), and editor of Naturaleza y artificio (Editorial Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 2009).
Topic: '44'
Living areas for families or groups of people generally follow similar rules, confining different individuals in similar spaces, and different family structures in similar groups of spaces. This exercise attempts to create new relationships while investigating possible divisions into multiple spaces.
The object of the contest is to create a permanent living space for three inhabitants.
The total area will be 250 m2, and the number of spaces limited by walls will be 44. The function of each space and the pieces of furniture must be included. The relations between the spaces are of utmost importance.
The contestant may choose the location. It should be described in detail, and importance will be given to project adaptation to the chosen site.
The architectural tour of the city of Bilbao took place on Wednesday 18 July 2002. We had the collaboration of the architect Ignacio Intxausti, a graduate of the School of Architecture of the University of the Basque Country, as a guide.
