Japanese Architects Win Pritzker Prize

Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizama, the lead architects of the Japanese firm SANAA, have won the Pritzker Prize, the highest honor in architecture. The jury praised the duo’s “deceptively simple” buildings for “[standing] in direct contrast with the bombastic.” Their works include the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City and Glass Pavilion for the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio, and they are currently working on a branch of the Louvre in northern France. Sejima is just the second woman to win the prize. Sejima says she and Nishizama strive to make “architecture like a park.”