Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Kazuyo Sejima has won this year's Jane Drew Prize for Architecture for her contribution to raising the profile of women in architecture.
Sejima is best known as the co-founder of the Japanese architecture studio SANAA, which she founded with Japanese architect Ryue Nishizawa in Tokyo in 1995.
Above: Kazuyo Sejima (left) has won this year's Jane Drew Prize for Architecture. Top image: she is the co-founder of SANAA with Ryue Nishizawa (right)
The Jane Drew prize is given annually as part of the W Awards, a programme held by The Architectural Review and Architects' Journal, which was previously known as the Women in Architecture Awards.
Sejima joins Denise Scott Brown and Yasmeen Lari on the list of trailblazing architects to have previously won the prize, which is named after the modernist pioneer Jane Drew. Born in 1956, Sejima studied to become an architect at Japan Women's University, before going on to work for Toyo Ito. She started her own studio Kazuyo Sejima & Associates in 1987, where she employed Nishizawa when he was an architecture student at Yokohama National University.
The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa is among SANAA's best-known projects
The duo established SANAA in 1995 and went on to receive international recognition together with major projects including the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, which it designed in 2004.
In 2010, the studio won the Pritzker Architecture...