The new issue of The Japan Architect (Issue 72: Winter, 2009), opens with a conversation between Ryue Nishizawa and Junya Ishigami. Nishizawa is, with Kazuyo Sejima, one half of SANAA, without doubt the most influential presence in contemporary Japanese architecture. Long acknowledged as visionaries in their native country, in recent years Sejima and Nishizawa have finally begun to make strides internationally, completing such high-profile projects as the Zollverein School of Management in Germany and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York.