The Weitzman School Awards 2024: Philadelphia

Weitzman Dean and Paley Professor Fritz Steiner hosts a lecture by acclaimed architect Kazuyo Sejima, co-founder of the Tokyo-based firm SANAA, recipient of the 2024 Kanter Tritsch Medal in Architecture. The talk will be followed by a public reception.

Dean Steiner will also present 2024 Kanter Tritsch Prize in Architecture to Ariel Koltun-Fromm (MArch’25).

SANAA is an architecture and design firm based in Tokyo, Japan founded by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa in 1995. Comprised of international architects and staff working on projects ranging in scale from residential and interior design to large complex buildings and urban planning schemes, as well as product and furniture design, SANAA approaches each project with a fresh perspective, believing that each design arises from conditions particular to the site and program. Each project is special and is closely followed by the two founding principles, as well as partners Yoshitaka Tanase, Yumiko Yamada, Rikiya Yamamoto, Lucy Styles and Francesca Singer.  

SANAA works internationally and major works include 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa in Japan, New Museum and Grace Farms in the USA, Rolex Learning Center, EPFL in Switzerland, the Louvre-Lens and La Samaritaine in France, Bocconi University New Urban Campus in Milan, and Sydney Modern Project. 
 

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