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  • Open Research Program 05 [Lecture]
  • Kazuyo Sejima
  • OCT 25, 2013
  • FRI
  • 15:00–16:30
  • Place: flowing KARASUMA

About the Open Research Program:

The Artistic Director and his curatorial team will conduct part of their research for Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015 publicly, in the form of lectures and other events in this program.

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  • Open Research Program 05 [Lecture]
  • Kazuyo Sejima
  • OCT 25, 2013
  • FRI
  • 15:00–16:30
  • Place: flowing KARASUMA

Photo by Takahiro Mitsukawa

For the fifth Open Research Program, Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015 presented a lecture by the Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima. Sejima delivered a presentation with many architectural photographs and plans of her work, providing a thorough exposition of her thought process in designing the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (2004), the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York (2007), the Rolex Learning Center in Lausanne (2010), the Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio (2006), the Inujima Art House Project on the Japanese island of Inujima (2010), the Louvre Lens in Lens, France (2012), and her latest work, “NISHINOYAMA HOUSE” in Kyoto (2013). There were several questions after the lecture. One young student asked Sejima what architecture students ought to do in their studies, to which she replied that if they find something interesting or something that they enjoy doing, she hopes that they will persevere even in the hardest times and to never give it up, because all young people have great potential. Her message was a strong encouragement for all of the architecture students in the audience.
The Parasophia Office would like to thank the seven students from Doshisha University, the Kyoto University of Art and Design, and Osaka University for their assistance in running this program.

(Photos by Takahiro Mitsukawa)


Open Research Program 05 [Lecture] Kazuyo Sejima
Date: Friday, October 25, 2013 3:00–4:30 PM
Venue: flowing KARASUMA (1F)
Presented by the Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture Organizing Committee, Kyoto Association of Corporate Executives (Kyoto Keizai Doyukai), Kyoto Prefecture, and Kyoto City
With the cooperation of Hase Building Co., Ltd.
Under the auspices of The Japan Foundation

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About the Open Research Program
The Artistic Director and his curatorial team will conduct part of their research for Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015 publicly, in the form of lectures and other events in this program.

Kazuyo Sejima // Architect. Born 1956 in Ibaraki prefecture, Japan. Master’s in Architecture, Japan Women’s University, 1981. Worked in office of Toyo Ito before founding Kazuyo Sejima and Associates in 1987. Founded SANAA with Ryue Nishizawa in 1995. Awards won by SANAA include design prizes from the Architectural Institute of Japan (1998 and 2006), the Golden Lion at the 9th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale (2004), the Rolf Schock Prize in Visual Arts (2005), and the Pritzker Architecture Prize (2010). Works by SANAA include the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art (Kanazawa, 2004); the Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art (Toledo, OH, 2006); Dior Omotesando Store (Tokyo, 2003); the De Kunstlinie Theater and Cultural Center in Almere (Almere, Netherlands, 2006); the New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, 2007); the Rolex Learning Center (Lausanne, 2010); le Louvre-Lens (Lens, France, 2012); etc. Sejima was the director of the 12th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale in 2010. “NISHINOYAMA HOUSE”, a housing complex designed by Sejima, is currently under construction in Omiya Nishinoyama, Kyoto.

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