Kazuyo Sejima

is a Japanese architect and university professor at Tama Art University and Keio University in Tokyo. Sejima won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2010.
Career.
Sejima worked in the design office of Toyo Ito.
In 1987, she started her own company, Kazuyo Sejima and Associates in 1987.
In 1995, she started a partnership with Ryūe Nishizawa in Tokyo. It was called SANAA.
In 2005-2008, she was a visiting professor at the School of Architecture at Princeton University, in Princeton, New Jersey.
In 2010, Sejima became Director of the Architecture Sector for the Venice Biennale. She organized the 12th Annual International Architecture Exhibition. She is the first woman to be in that position.