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Toyo Ito (伊東 豊雄, Itō Toyō, born 1 June 1941) is a Japanese architect known for creating conceptual architecture, in which he seeks to simultaneously express the physical and virtual worlds. He is a leading exponent of architecture that addresses the contemporary notion of a "simulated" city, and has been called "one of the world's ...
May 7, 2024 · Toyo Ito (born June 1, 1941, Seoul, Korea [now in South Korea]) is a Japanese architect known for his innovative designs and for taking a fresh approach to each of his projects. Ito held that architecture should consider the senses as well as physical needs, and his philosophy doubtless contributed to the considerable critical and popular ...
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Jun 1, 2020 · As one of the leading architects of Japan's increasingly highly-regarded architecture culture, 2013 Pritzker Laureate Toyo Ito (born June 1, 1941) has defined his career by combining elements ...
Toyo Ito was born on June 1, 1941 in Keijo (Seoul), Korea (Japanese). His father was a business man with a special interest in the early ceramic ware of the Yi Dynasty of Korea and Japanese style paintings. He also was a sports fan of baseball and golf. In 1943, Ito, his mother, and his two elder sisters moved back to Japan.
Mar 17, 2013 · In 1971, he started his own studio in Tokyo, originally named Urban Robot (Urbot); in 1979 he changed the name to Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects. Most of Ito’s early comissions were ...
Aug 17, 2021 · Examining the work of Tokyo architect Toyo Ito (b. 1941) – particularly his now seminal Sendai Mediatheque (1995-2001), Serpentine Gallery (London, 2002, with Cecil Balmond), TOD's Omotesando ...