20​10年にプリツカー賞を受賞した​日本人建築家の妹島和世と西沢立衛​による建築ユニット「サナア（SANAA / Sejima and Nishizawa and Associates）」の作品集。「サナア」​により建てられたシドニー​の「ニューサウスウェールズ州立美術館（Art Gallery of New South Wales）」​の新館​建立を讃えて制作された重要な一冊。​

シドニーにおけるアボリジニ言語で「水を見る」を意味する言葉「ナーラ・バドゥ（Naala Badu）」と名付けられたこの建物は、2022年12月に一般公開された。この建物は、153年の歴史を持つ公共施設を、芸術、建築、風景がシームレスに​繋がる美術館のフィールドに変えるという、10年規模の企画「シドニー・モダン・プロジェクト（Sydney Modern Project）」の集大成である。21世紀のオーストラリアで最も新しく、最も重要な文化的ランドマークであると言えよう。

オランダ人建築フォトグラファー、イワン・バーン（Iwan Baan）が手がける。

This important new book celebrates the design of SANAA’s new building for the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney led by Pritzker Prize–winning architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa.

The building, named Naala Badu, meaning ‘seeing waters’ in the Sydney Aboriginal language, opened to the public in December 2022. It is the culmination of a decade-long vision – the Sydney Modern Project – to transform a 153-year-old public institution into an art museum campus with a seamless connection between art, architecture and landscape. It is Australia’s newest and most significant cultural landmark of the 21st century.

Richly illustrated, SANAA in Sydney takes readers behind the scenes of this ambitious project – from the international architecture competition, through the design and construction process, to the building’s opening – and offers reflections on its built form and engagement with art, people and the environment. It includes a design statement by SANAA architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa along with texts by the Art Gallery’s director, Michael Brand; Harvard University architectural historian Eve Blau; professor of architecture at the University of Technology Sydney, Anthony Burke; director of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Yuko Hasegawa; and the Art Gallery’s head of the Sydney Modern Project, Sally Webster. Design competition jurist, architect and academic, Juhani Pallasmaa, has authored the foreword. The book also reunites SANAA’s founders with Iwan Baan, one of architecture’s most sought-after photographers.

Edited by Michael Brand with a foreword by Juhani Pallasmaa
Photography by Iwan Baan