VENICE, Italy—Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima has been named director of the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale. She is the first woman to hold the position.

　　As half of the architecture firm Sanaa, together with Ryue Nishizawa, Sejima has won acclaim for recent projects including the new Bowery home for the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio, and this summer's Serpentine Gallery pavilion in London. In 2004 the team won the Biennale's Golden Lion for the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan.

　　Said Venice Biennale president Paolo Baratta, "After a series of Biennali entrusted to eminent critics or historians, the decision was taken to give this sector once more to an architect to bring the major theme of the quality of architecture back to the forefront through a person who has made quality into a personal vocation.”

　　“The choice has fallen on one of the most highly qualified and established representatives of the new masters of architecture of the new millennium."

　　The biennale will take place from August 29 to November 21 of next year.
 

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