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Kazuyo Sejima

1956 - Today

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Kazuyo Sejima (妹島 和世, Sejima Kazuyo, born 29 October 1956) is a Japanese architect and director of her own firm, Kazuyo Sejima & Associates. In 1995, she co-founded the firm SANAA (Sejima + Nishizawa & Associates). In 2010, Sejima was the second woman to receive the Pritzker Prize, which was awarded jointly with Nishizawa. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kazuyo Sejima has received more than 299,010 page views. Her biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Kazuyo Sejima is the 219th most popular architect (up from 235th in 2019), the 664th most popular biography from Japan (up from 692nd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Japanese Architect.

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  • 300k

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  • 55.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Kazuyo Sejima ranks 219 out of 518. Before her are Giovanni Antonio Amadeo, Ödön Lechner, Callimachus, Quatremère de Quincy, Félix Candela, and Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky. After her are Matthias of Arras, Muhammad V of Granada, Giacomo Quarenghi, Pierre Jeanneret, Aldo van Eyck, and Giuseppe Terragni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Kazuyo Sejima ranks 106. Before her are Luis Guzmán, Yegor Gaidar, William J. Burns, El Risitas, Andoni Goikoetxea Olaskoaga, and Horacio Cartes. After her are Sebastian Coe, Mari Boine, John Lydon, Klaus Allofs, Georg Gänswein, and Randy Rhoads.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kazuyo Sejima ranks 664 out of 6,245. Before her are Prince Kan'in Kotohito (1865), Wakatsuki Reijirō (1866), Takashi Miike (1960), Shigenori Tōgō (1882), Kazu Naoki (1918), and Yoshitaka Amano (1952). After her are Shogo Kamo (1915), Riyoko Ikeda (1947), Hōjō Ujimasa (1538), Machiko Kyō (1924), Hidesaburō Ueno (1872), and Ii Naosuke (1815).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Japan

Among architects born in Japan, Kazuyo Sejima ranks 7. Before her are Tadao Ando (1941), Kenzō Tange (1913), Arata Isozaki (1931), Fumihiko Maki (1928), Kisho Kurokawa (1934), and Shigeru Ban (1957). After her are Kengo Kuma (1954), Kunio Maekawa (1905), Kiyonori Kikutake (1928), and Ryue Nishizawa (1966).

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