The Inujima and Imabari projects represent two distinct sides of the Japanese architectural practice SANAA and the independent prac¬tices of its founders Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, whose 30 year-long partnership is celebrated through the exhibition depicted in this publication.

Constantly thinking about architecture in its environment, SANAA’s typological studies are an incremental and iterative pro¬cess by which the work connects to those inhabiting the designs. 

Against radically different backgrounds, both projects come from an extended practice over time, guided by an interest in continuous learning and adaptation that sees architecture as coextensive with the environment it shapes.