TOYO ITO

It has been said that the Sendai Mediatheque (2000), with its revolutionary approach to engineering, marks a turning point not only in Toyo Ito's architecture but in contemporary world architecture in general. Before Sendai, Ito's work emphasized structural lightn ess and transparency, and what he saw as the ever-changing non-context of Japanese cities. But though Ito's designs still show the se early influences, after the Sendai Mediatheque he began to leave behind what he increasingly saw as the boring and inappropriate boxes favour...[Read more]