Architect – Toyo Ito

When you live in a Korean household featuring too many Japanesse architects, artists, products can be a dangerous thing. So this evening as I start with Toyo Ito – I think: trouble brewing. Then I find he was born in Seoul of Japanese parents so thought the ice seems thin I feel somewhat safe, ok precarious but safish.

That being said Toyo Ito was born, as I said in Seoul, Korea. Two years later he moved to Japan where eventually he studied architecture at the University of Tokyo. Ito was the laureate of the Pritzer Prize in 2013. Per his Wikipedia page: “Toyo Ito is a Japanese architect known for creating conceptual architecture, in which he seeks to simultaneously express the physical and virtual worlds.”


White U House
1976, Nakano, Japan




Silver Hut
1984, Nakano, Japan




Tower of Winds
1986, Yokohama, Japan




Yatsushiro Municipal Museum
1991, Yatsushiro, Japan




Sendai Mediatheque
2001, Sendai, Japan




Bruges Pavilion
2002, Bruges, Belgium






Matsumoto Performing Art Centre
2004, Matsumoto, Japan




Tod’s Omotesando Building
2004, Tokyo, Japan




Vivocity Singapore at Harbour Front
2006, Vivocity, Singapore




Library of Tama Art University
2007, Tokyo, Japan




Huge Wine Glass in Pescara
2008




Porta Fira towers
2009, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain




Za Koenji Public Theatre
2009, Tokyo, Japan




Mother and Child Museum
2011, Imabari Ehime Japan




Museum of Architecture Imabari Ehime Japan
2011, Ehime, Japan




Koo Chen Fu Memorial Library
2014, Taipei, Taiwan




National Taichung Theatre Taiwan
2014, Xitrun District of Taichung




Meiso No Mori Municipal Funeral Hall
2015, Kakamigahara Shi, Japan




International Museum of the Baroque
2016, Puebla, Mexico