Sendai · Japan
GAD / PERSON PROFILE
Toyo Ito
Structural experiments that loosen the boundaries of public space.
Background & practice
Ito worked with Kiyonori Kikutake before founding Urban Robot in 1971, later renamed Toyo Ito & Associates. His career extends from experimental houses to libraries and theatres, and to collective rebuilding initiatives after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
How to read the work
At Sendai Mediatheque, structural tubes free the floors for changing activities. His work asks how buildings can accommodate fluid patterns of life.
Professional recognition
2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate.
Attribution note
These projects are documented in Ito’s Pritzker record and were developed with his office and collaborators.
DOCUMENTED CONNECTIONS
Selected project records
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