Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa work independently and collaboratively as the principal partners of Tokyo-based architectural firm SANAA. One of the most prominent architectural firms working today, SANAA has been highly praised for its airy, volumetric plans for the circular 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art (2004) in Kanazawa, Japan, and the transparent Glass Pavilion (2006), an exhibition and glassmaking facility at the Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio. This unique book presents Italian artist Walter Niedermayr's atmospheric photographs of completed projects by Sejima and Nishizawa intermixed with the photographer's subdued alpine landscapes. While the world awaits the opening of SANAA's New Museum of Contemporary Art on New York's Bowery this December, these pages reveal much about the firm's aesthetics through Neidermayr's sublime images, editor and curator Moritz Küng's succinct text and project descriptions, and the architects' minimalist floorplans.

Walter Niedermayr's photography is on view in a solo show at Galerie Nordenhake Berlin from October 27 to November 24 and an exhibition of architectural work by SANAA opens at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle on November 30.