Toyo Ito

Toyo Ito Kimdir ?

Toyo Ito 1941 yılında Güney Kore’nin başkenti Seul’de doğdu. Tokyo Üniversitesi Mimarlık Bölümü’nden 1965 yılında mezun oldu. 1971 yılında kendi mimarlık bürosunu kuran Ito, Tayvan’daki Dünya Olimpiyat Oyunları Stadyumu’nun da aralarında bulunduğu birçok esere imza attı.

Toyo Ito 2013 yılı Pritzker Mimarlık Ödülü’nü kazandı

Toyo Ito Eserleri

• 1976 – The U House (house for his sister)
• 1984 – Silver Hut (Ito’s own house, adjacent to White U)
• 1986 – Tower of Winds, Yokohama
• 1991 – Yatsushiro Municipal Museum
• 1994 – Old People’s Home in Yatsushiro
• 2001 – Sendai Mediatheque: a multi-function complex accommodating a mixed programme of library, art gallery, audio-visual library, film studio and café. It was a competition winning scheme chosen in 1995 from amongst 235 competing proposals.^[13] Widely recognised as one of Ito’s seminal works.
• 2002 – Temporary Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, in Kensington Gardens, London
• 2002 – Bruges pavilion
• 2004 – Matsumoto Performing Art Center, Matsumoto
• 2004 – Tod’s Omotesandō Building, Tokyo
• 2006 – First Prize “Taichung Opera International Competition” in Taiwan
• 2006 – Meiso no Mori Municipal Funeral Hall Kakamigahara-shi, Gifu, Japan
• 2006 – VivoCity Singapore at HarbourFront
• 2007 – Library of Tama Art University, Tokyo
• 2008 – World Games Stadium in Kaohsiung, Taiwan
• 2008 – Villa for Chilean architectural project Ochoalcubo.
• 2008 – Huge Wine Glass in Pescara (broken after 64 days from unveiling)
• 2009 – Suites Avenue Building, Barcelona, Spain
• 2009 – Torre Realia BCN and Hotel Porta Fira, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
• 2011 – Toyo Ito Museum of Architecture, Imabari-shi, Ehime, Japan
• 2011 – Ken Iwata Mother and Child Museum, Imabari, Ehime, Japan