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Ryue Nishizawa

1966 - Today

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Ryue Nishizawa (西沢 立衛, Nishizawa Ryūe, born 1966 in Kanagawa Prefecture) is a Japanese architect based in Tokyo. He is a graduate of Yokohama National University, and is director of his own firm, Office of Ryue Nishizawa, established in 1997. In 1995, he co-founded the firm SANAA (Sejima and Nishizawa and Associates) with the architect Kazuyo Sejima. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ryue Nishizawa has received more than 151,286 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Ryue Nishizawa is the 450th most popular architect (down from 436th in 2019), the 1,353rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,334th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Japanese Architect.

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  • 150k

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  • 53.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Ryue Nishizawa ranks 450 out of 518. Before him are Robert Moses, Toros Toramanian, Kiyonori Kikutake, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Friedrich Ludwig Persius, and Alejandro Aravena. After him are Enric Miralles, Charles Robert Cockerell, Ferdinand Boberg, Nikolay Lvov, Anastasios Metaxas, and Andrei Stackenschneider.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Ryue Nishizawa ranks 232. Before him are Alberto Acosta, Kim Kielsen, Michael K. Williams, Gideon Sa'ar, Karin Viard, and Delphine de Vigan. After him are Matthew Labyorteaux, Žarko Paspalj, Jan Boklöv, Jorge González, Kang Soo-yeon, and Greg Wise.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ryue Nishizawa ranks 1,353 out of 6,245. Before him are Masao Takemoto (1919), Rokurō Naya (1932), Masashi Tashiro (1956), Kaoru Mitoma (1997), Yasutaro Matsuki (1957), and Kitamura Tokoku (1868). After him are Toshikatsu Matsuoka (1945), Choei Sato (1951), Yoshiko Tanaka (1956), Shinji Ono (1979), Masahiro Sakurai (1970), and Princess Tomohito of Mikasa (1955).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Japan

Among architects born in Japan, Ryue Nishizawa ranks 11. Before him are Kisho Kurokawa (1934), Shigeru Ban (1957), Kazuyo Sejima (1956), Kengo Kuma (1954), Kunio Maekawa (1905), and Kiyonori Kikutake (1928).

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