MODEL SERIES II ( SANAA ), 2015
SANAA is an architectural firm from Tokyo , founded by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa . Among the buildings they designed are the Museum for Contemporary Art in Kanazawa , the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York and the glass pavilion of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio . In the city of Almere in the Netherlands , they built a theatre hall annex arts centre called De Kunstlinie . In 2010 , Sejima and Nishizawa won the Pritzker Prize , the world ’ s most prominent award for architecture .
Several times Thomas Demand visited the SANAA studio – a place where paper and cardboard are part of the daily conceptual processes . Architectural models often provide an abstract , idealized vision ; they are filtered interpretations of reality which will frequently highlight utopian elements . Demand ’ s photo series of the scale models shows an abstract landscape of architectural shapes , stripped of any human dimension or reference yet with a clearly resonating creative language .
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