Just three months after her firm’s much-anticipated Sydney Modern project opened to the public at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima has been named as the 2023 recipient of the Jane Drew Prize for Architecture. Presented by British publications The Architects’ Journal and The Architectural Review, the annual honor (now in its 11th edition) is bestowed on female architectural designers who have “demonstrated a design excellence and made a significant contribution to architectural production” as part of the larger W Awards program. Sejima, co-founder of Tokyo-based SANAA with Ryue Nishizawa, joins past recipients including Zaha Hadid (2014), Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Grafton Architects (2015), Denise Scott Brown (2017), Liz Diller (2019), and Farshid Moussavi (2022).
Jointly awarded the 2010 Pritzker Architecture Prize alongside Nishizawa (she was the second woman at the time to be named as a Pritzker laureate following Hadid’s 2004 win), Sejima and SANAA are perhaps best known for major cultural commissions that in addition to Sydney Modern include the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan (2004); the Glass Pavilion at Ohio’s Toledo Museum of Art (2006), the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York (2007), and the 2009 Serpentine Pavilion. While high-profile museum and gallery projects dominate the firm’s portfolio, SANAA has also designed housing, civic buildings, retail environments, and education projects across the globe.
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