Toyo Ito graduated from Tokyo University, department of architecture in 1965. After brief employment in Kiyonori Kikutake Architect and Associates, he started his own studio, 'urban robot' (urbot) in Tokyo, 1971. The firm was later renamed Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects in 1979.

Selected Works:

Tower of the Wind, Yokohama, Japan 1986
T Hall, theater, library, civic center, Taisha, Japan 1999
Mediatheque, Sendai, Japan 2001

 

 

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Toyo Ito

1941 born Tokyo, Japan
1965 Tokyo University, School of Architecture

  
Publications :
   
 


Toyo Ito: Works Projects Writings
Andrea Maffei,
Electa (2002)


Blurring Architecture
Toyo Ito,
Charta (2000)


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