Sanaa may refer to:

• Sana'a, the capital of Yemen
  • San‘a’ Governorate, a governerate in Yemen
• Sana'a International Airport
• Sana'a manuscripts
• Sana’a (patrol vessel), a Yemeni patrol vessel
• Sana'a University. a Yemeni university
• SANAA, a Japanese architecture firm
• SANAA, the national utility for water supply and sanitation in Honduras

SANAA The South African National Archery Association

People with the name[link]

• Sanaa Benhama, Moroccan athlete
• Sanaa Hamri, Moroccan music and film director
• Sanaa Lathan, American actress

See also[link]

• Sana (disambiguation)

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Kazuyo Sejima
Born	1956 (age 55–56) Ibaraki prefecture, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Awards	Schelling Architekturpreis 2000 Rolf Schock Prize 2005 Pritzker Prize 2010
Work
Practice	Kazuyo Sejima and Associates (1987–1995) SANAA (since 1995)

Kazuyo Sejima (妹島 和世, Sejima Kazuyo^?, born 1956, Ibaraki prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese architect. After studying at Japan Women's University and working in the office of Toyo Ito, in 1987 she founded Kazuyo Sejima and Associates. In 1995 she founded the Tokyo-based firm SANAA (Sejima and Nishizawa and Associates) together with her former employee Ryue Nishizawa. Sejima was appointed Director of the Architecture Sector for the Venice Biennale, which she curated for the 12th Annual International Architecture Exhibition, held in 2010. She was the first woman ever selected for this position. In 2010 she was awarded the Pritzker Prize, together with Ryue Nishizawa.^[1]

Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa have worked on several projects in Germany, France, England, the Netherlands, United States, and Spain. Many of their designs like the New Museum in the Bowery District in New York City as well as their Glass Pavilion for the Toledo Museum of Art involve glass and allowing a space to be open to the world around it. This design element can be found greatly in most of their designs.

Sejima creates most of her designs with very clean modernist elements. They usually include many slick, clean, and shiny surfaces like glass, marble, and metals. She also likes to use squares and cubes within her designs, and these can be found in most of her designs in various different usages. Large windows allow for much natural light to enter a space, and makes her spaces very involved with the worlds that are on the other side of the glass. It's this dual connection of two spaces, that she draws most of her design inspirations.

Projects by Kazuyo Sejima and Associates[link]

Police Office in Chofu Station (1993–94)

• Platform I Vacation House – 1987 to 1988 – Chiba, Japan
• Platform II Studio – 1988 to 1990 – Yamanachi, Japan
• Platform III House (Not Built/Project Only) – 1989 to 1990 – Tokyo, Japan
• Castelbajac Sports Store – 1990 to 1991 – Kanagawa, Japan
• Saishunkan Seiyaku Women's Dormitory – 1990 to 1991 – Kumamoto, Japan
• N House – 1990 to 1992 – Kumamoto, Japan
• An Apartment Building (Not Built/Project Only) – 1991 – Osaka, Japan
• Nasumoahara Harmony Hall (Not Built/Project Only) – 1991 – Tochigi, Japan
• Pachinko Parlor I – 1991 to 1993 – Ibaraki, Japan
• Villa in the Forest – 1992 to 1994 – Nagano, Japan
• Pachinko Parlor II – 1993 – Ibaraki, Japan
• Y House – 1993 to 1994 – Chiba, Japan
• Police Office in Chofu Station – 1993 to 1994 – Tokyo, Japan
• Service Center at the Tokyo Expo 96 (Not Built/Project Only) – 1994 to 1995 – Tokyo, Japan
• Yokohama International Port Terminal (Not Built/Project Only) – 1994 – Kanagawa, Japan
• Gifu Kitagata Apartment Building – 1994 to 2000 – Gifu, Japan
• Pachinko Parlor III – 1995 to 1996 – Ibaraki, Japan
• U Office Building – 1996 to 1998 – Ibaraki, Japan
• Small House – 1999 to 2000 – Tokyo, Japan
• Kozankaku Student Residence – 1999 to 2000 – Ibaraki, Japan
• hhstyle.com Store – 1999 to 2000 – Tokyo, Japan
• Asahi Shimbun Yamagata Office Building – 2000 to 2002 – Yamagata, Japan
• House in a Plum Grove – 2001 to 2003 – Tokyo, Japan
• Onishi Civic Center – 2003 to 2005 – Gunma, Japan
• Theater and Artscentre- 2007 – Almere, The Netherlands
• New Museum - 2010- New York City, United States
• Shibaura House - 2011 - Tokyo, Japan

Professorship[link]

Sejima teaches as a Visiting Professor, both at Tama Art University and Keio University in Tokyo. Together with Nishizawa, from 2005 to 2008, she held the Jean Labatut Professorship at the School of Architecture at Princeton University, in Princeton, New Jersey in the United States, where she has also served on the advisory council for several years.^{[citation needed]}

See also[link]

	Japan portal
	Biography portal

• Women in architecture

References[link]

• Gallery MA (2003). Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA Works 1995–2003. Toto Shuppan. ISBN 978-4-88706-224-5
• GA (2005). Sejima Kazuyo + Nishizawa Ryue Dokuhon. A.D.A. Edita. ISBN 4-87140-662-8
• GA (2005). GA ARCHITECT 18 Sejima Kazuyo + Nishizawa Ryue. A.D.A. Edita. ISBN 4-87140-426-9
• Yuko Hasegawa (2005). Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA, Electa. ISBN 978883703919
• Yuko Hasegawa (2006). Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa: SANAA. Phaidon Press. ISBN 978-1-904313-40-3
• Agustin Perez Rubio (2007). SANAA Houses: Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa. Actar. ISBN 978-84-96540-70-5
• Joseph Grima and Karen Wong (Eds) (2008) Shift: SANAA and the New Museum. Lars Müller Publishers. ISBN 978-3-03778-140-1
• Thomas Daniell (2008). After the Crash: Architecture in Post-Bubble Japan. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 978-1-56898-776-7
• New Museum (2010). http://www.newmuseum.org/about/new_building/

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Kazuyo Sejima

• SANAA Official Website (Japanese)
• Kazuyo Sejima appointed as Director of the Architecture Sector for the Biennale di Venezia.
• STORIES OF HOUSES: House in a Plum Grove (Tokyo), by Kazuyo Sejima

Ryue Nishizawa (西沢 立衛, Nishizawa Ryūe^?, born 1966, 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. In 2010, he was awarded the Pritzker Prize, together with Sejima.^[1]

Projects[link]

• Weekend House - 1997 to 1998 - Gunma, Japan
• Takeo Head Office Store - 1999 to 2000 - Tokyo, Japan
• House at Kamakura - 1999 to 2001 - Kanagawa, Japan
• Apartment Building at Ichikawa - 2001 to Present - Chiba, Japan
• Eda Apartment Building - 2002 to Present - Kanagawa, Japan
• Funabashi Apartment Building - 2002 to 2004 - Chiba, Japan
• Moriyama House - 2002 to Present - Tokyo, Japan
• Love Planet Museum - 2003 - Okayama, Japan
• Video Pavilion - 2003 to Present - Kagawa, Japan
• House in China - 2003 to Present - Tianjin, China
• Office Building, Benesse Art Site Naoshima - 2004 - Kagawa, Japan
• A House - 2004 to Present - Tokyo, Japan
• Naoshima Museum - 2005 to Present - Kagawa, Japan
• Towada Museum - 2005 to Present - Aomori, Japan

References[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: SANAA

• Gallery MA (2003). Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA Works 1995–2003. Toto Shuppan. ISBN 978-4-88706-224-5
• GA (2005). Sejima Kazuyo + Nishizawa Ryue Dokuhon. A.D.A. Edita. ISBN 4-87140-662-8
• GA (2005). GA ARCHITECT 18 Sejima Kazuyo + Nishizawa Ryue. A.D.A. Edita. ISBN 4-87140-426-9
• Yuko Hasegawa (2006). Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa: SANAA. Phaidon Press. ISBN 978-1-904313-40-3
• Agustin Perez Rubio (2007). SANAA Houses: Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa. Actar. ISBN 978-84-96540-70-5
• Joseph Grima and Karen Wong (Eds) (2008) Shift: SANAA and the New Museum. Lars Müller Publishers. ISBN 978-3-03778-140-1
• Thomas Daniell (2008). After the Crash: Architecture in Post-Bubble Japan. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 978-1-56898-776-7

Notes[link]

External links[link]

	Japan portal
	Biography portal

• Ryue Nishizawa lectures on Theory and Practice
• Office of Ryue Nishizawa official website (Japanese)
• SANAA official website (Japanese)
• SANAA: Works 1998-2008 New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Video at VernissageTV.

Sanaa Lathan
Lathan at the premiere of Wonderful World, April 2009
Born	Sanaa McCoy Lathan (1971-09-19) September 19, 1971 (age 40)[1] New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actress/Voice actress
Years active	1996–present

Sanaa McCoy Lathan (born September 19, 1971) is an American actress and voice actress. She has starred in numerous movies, including the box-office hits Love & Basketball, Alien vs. Predator, Something New, and The Family That Preys. Lathan was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance on Broadway in A Raisin in the Sun. In 2010 she starred in the all-black performance of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Novello Theatre in London.^[2]

Early life[link]

Lathan was born in New York City and attended Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics. Her first name means "brilliance" in Arabic and "work of art" in Swahili.^[3] She is of African American descent.^[4][5] Her mother, Eleanor McCoy, was an actress and dancer^[6] who performed on Broadway with Eartha Kitt. Her father, Stan Lathan, worked behind the scenes in television for PBS, as well as a producer on shows such as Sanford & Son and Russell Simmons' Def Comedy Jam. Her brother is Tendaji Lathan (a DJ).

She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in English. Lathan contemplated a career in law, but instead enrolled at the Yale School of Drama.

Career[link]

Following her training at Yale, where she studied with Earle R. Gister and performed in a number of Shakespeare's plays, Lathan earned acclaim both off-Broadway and on the Los Angeles stage. Encouraged by her father to make Los Angeles her professional base, the young actress found early television roles on episodes of such shows as In the House, Family Matters, NYPD Blue, and Moesha. During that same period, she won raves and a Best Actress nod from the Los Angeles NAACP Theatrical Award Committee for her performance in To Take Arms.

In 1998, Lathan earned a degree of recognition with her role as the mother of Wesley Snipes' title character in Blade. She followed this the subsequent year with a role in Life with Martin Lawrence and Eddie Murphy and back-to-back turns in The Best Man and The Wood. The Best Man was a comedic ensemble film, starring Taye Diggs, Nia Long, Harold Perrineau Jr., and Morris Chestnut. The Best Man went on to become one of the top ten highest grossing African American films in history and Lathan received a NAACP Image Award nomination for her performance. The Wood, another ensemble film starring Diggs and Omar Epps, cast her as the love interest of Epps. Lathan and Epps were reunited onscreen in Gina Prince-Bythewood's Love & Basketball, this time playing a couple as passionate about basketball as they are about each other. In reality, the couple was also dating at the time. The film served as a break-out role for Lathan, who played a leading character instead of the girlfriend of one. Her performance in Love & Basketball earned her the 2001 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture, as well as an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Actress and a BET Award.

In 2000, Lathan appeared in the Off-Broadway production of "The Vagina Monologues" along with Teri Garr and Julianna Margulies.

Lathan at the 2010 Comic Con in San Diego.

In 2001, Lathan earned additional acclaim for her work in the multicultural comedy Catfish in Black Bean Sauce. Next was her second collaboration with Prince-Bythewood: Disappearing Acts; it is based on a novel by Terry McMillan. In the HBO movie, Lathan is cast as an aspiring singer/songwriter in love with a carpenter, played by her ‘’Blade’’ co-star Wesley Snipes. For her work in the film, Lathan earned an Essence Award for Best Actress, as well as the added assurance of a very busy work schedule. That year, she was named by Ebony magazine as one of its 55 Most Beautiful People and was honoured by Essence magazine and Black Entertainment Television.

In 2002, Lathan starred in the romantic comedy, Brown Sugar, alongside Diggs, Queen Latifah, and Mos Def. Lathan’s performance earned an NAACP Image Award Nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture. The film also received an NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Motion Picture.

In 2004, Lathan starred on Broadway in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Combs, Audra McDonald, and Phylicia Rashad. Lathan received a Tony Award nomination for Best Performance by a Featured Actress for her portrayal of Beneatha Younger. Several years later, Lathan reprised the role in a critically acclaimed ABC Network production of A Raisin in the Sun.

Lathan subsequently starred in several major Hollywood films, including Alien vs. Predator, which was Lathan's biggest role to date. Alien vs. Predator was a major success grossing over $171 million worldwide. Out of Time was also an important role for Lathan as she played the plot-twist antagonist, sharing the screen with protagonist Denzel Washington.

In 2006, Lathan co-starred with Simon Baker in Something New, a romantic comedy about an interracial relationship. Lathan appeared in a recurring role as Michelle Landau in another interracial relationship as the much younger wife of a Texas businessman (Larry Hagman) during the fourth season of the television series, Nip/Tuck.

Lathan played Andrea in Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys. The film also features Alfre Woodard and Kathy Bates; it was released in the U.S. on September 12, 2008.

Lathan with Matthew Broderick at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Wonderful World.

In 2009, Lathan co-starred with Matthew Broderick in the drama Wonderful World. She also began voicing the character Donna Tubbs on The Cleveland Show.

Lathan is currently playing the title role in Second Stage Theatre's By The Way, Meet Vera Stark by Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage co-starring Stephanie J. Block, and David Garrison closing June 12.

In 2011, Lathan co-starred in the Stephen Soderbergh thriller Contagion alongside Matt Damon, Jude Law, Marion Cotillard, Kate Winslet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Bryan Cranston, and Laurence Fishburne.

Filmography[link]

Awards and nominations[link]

• BET Award

• 2001, Best Actress: (Winner)

• Black Movie Awards

• 2006, Best Actress: Something New (Nominated)

• Black Reel Award

• 2008, Best Actress: The Family That Preys (Nominated)
• 2006, Best Actress: Something New (Nominated)
• 2004, Best Actress: Out of Time (Winner)
• 2003, Best Actress: Brown Sugar (Nominated)
• 2001, Best Actress: Love & Basketball (Winner)
• 2001, Best Actress in a TV Movie/Mini-Series: Disappearing Acts (Nominated)

• Image Awards

• 2009, Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie/Mini-Series: A Raisin in the Sun (nominated)
• 2007, Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture: Something New (Nominated)
• 2007, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series: Nip/Tuck (Nominated)
• 2004, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture: Out of Time (Nominated)
• 2003, Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture: Brown Sugar (Nominated)
• 2001, Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture: Love & Basketball (Winner)
• 2000, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture: 'The Best Man' (Nominated)

• Independent Spirit Awards

• 2001, Best Female Lead: Love & Basketball (Nominated)

• Theatre World Award

• 2004 A Raisin in the Sun (Winner)

• Tony Award

• 2003, Best Featured Actress in a Play: A Raisin in the Sun (Nominated)

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Sanaa Lathan

• Sanaa Lathan at the Internet Movie Database
• Sanaa Lathan at AskMen.com

Interviews

• Essence Interview (September, 2008)
• MSNBC interview (February 2, 2006)
• MetroMix interview (February 2, 2006)
• BlackFilm interview (January, 2006)
• Latino Review interview (August, 2004)
• BlackFilm interview (August, 2004)

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Christopher Stevens is an American record producer, mix-engineer, and songwriter based in Nashville, Tennessee. His most notable achievements to date include production and mixing for Grammy-winning CCM artist TobyMac, and production, programming, and mixing for country artists Blake Shelton, Carrie Underwood, and American Idol finalist Mandisa.

He has handled production, writing, and mixing for numerous artists under the EMI CMG, Word Records, Provident, INO Records, Gotee Records, and Curb Records labels. Stevens is credited with programming and keyboards on the Carrie Underwood single "Cowboy Casanova".

In 2010, Stevens was honored as BMI's Christian Songwriter of the Year, and he received two new Grammy nominations for production on TobyMac's album, Tonight, and Sanctus Real's album Pieces of a Real Heart.

External links[link]

• Christopher Stevens, Allmusic.com

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