Toyo Ito
Toyo Ito

Author: Jessie Turnbull

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2012-08-10

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1616891637

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The work of Japanese architect Toyo Ito explores the dynamic relationship between buildings and their environments. His principal focus is on developing an architecture free of the grid system, which he believes homogenizes people and their lives. Toyo Ito: Forces of Nature documents the architect's 2009 Kassler lecture at the Princeton University School of Architecture. Told primarily in Ito's own voice, the book features the edited lecture transcript, as well as an interview with the architect by Julian Worrall and a new translation of Ito's 1980 essay "The Projection of the 'Profane' World onto the 'Sacred.'" Projects illustrated in the book include: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (unbuilt), Taichung Opera House, Tama Art University Library, and Kakamigahara Crematorium. Bringing together different strands of a long and fruitful career, Toyo Ito: Forces of Nature concludes with an afterword by Ito that addresses the exhibition Home for All, a response to Japan's earthquake and tsunami disasters in March 2011.

Toyo Ito
Toyo Ito

Author: Dana Buntrock

Publisher: Phaidon Press

Published: 2014-10-15

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780714868608

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Toyo Ito (b. 1941) is one of the most important Japanese architects working today, and has grown to be one of the most influential in the world. He is famous for ambitious and stunning projects such as the Sendai Mediatheque, TOD’S Omotesando, Tama Art University Library, and Island City Central Park, all of which demonstrate his ability to use materials in surprising and innovative ways, with revolutionary high‐tech organic geometries. In this unique volume Toyo Ito presents a personal selection of 31 of his projects divided into 14 thematic sections, all with introductions in which Ito looks at some of the influences on and trends in his thought. The eminent architect Riken Yamamoto provides an introduction, while the internationally respected architecture critics Dana Buntrock and Taro Igarashi contribute exploratory essays.

Sendai Mediatheque
Sendai Mediatheque

Author: Toyoo Itō

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13:

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In 1995, Toyo Ito's competition project revealed a new structural prototype (or archi-type) which expressed the will to incorporate the notions of mobility and fluidity into space and structure. This book presents the process of design and construction of this prototype since then.

A Japanese Constellation
A Japanese Constellation

Author: Pedro Gadanho

Publisher: Moma

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781633450097

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'A Japanese Constellation' focuses on the work of a small group of architects and designers influenced by and gravitating around the architect Toyo Ito and the architectural firm SANAA.

伊東豊雄の建築
伊東豊雄の建築

Author: 伊東豊雄

Publisher:

Published: 2014-10-29

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 9784887063464

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The second in a two-volume introduction to the extraordinary career of architect Toyo Ito, this monograph features 20 of his works in Japan and abroad since the Sendai Mediatheque, including the 2002 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, Tama Art University Library and Kaohsiung Stadium, plus ongoing projects such as the National Taichung Theater. In addition, Itos endeavours surrounding his Home-for-All project (featured at the 2012 Venice Biennale) are given special attention. In a conversation with Terunobu Fujimori, Ito reveals his personal insight regarding these Edited buildings and projects, which are accompanied by abundant photographs, drawings and sketches.

Tarzans in the Media Forest
Tarzans in the Media Forest

Author: Toyoo Itō

Publisher: Architecture Words

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 9781902902906

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A collection of architectural writings by the prominent Japanese architect Toyo Ito, covering over 30 years of writing.

Toyo Ito
Toyo Ito

Author: Toyoo Itō

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781904313458

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This lushly illustrated monograph presents the Japanese architect's most significant projects, starting with the Aluminum House of 1970-1 through to the most recent project for the Mahler 4 office block in Amsterdam (2000-2001).

Terunobu Fujimori Architect
Terunobu Fujimori Architect

Author: Terunobu Fujimori

Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783775733236

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The sophisticated designs by Terunobu Fujimori (*1946 in Nagano prefecture) are fascinating: archaic, eccentric, poetic, and ecological, almost all of them are made of simple, traditional materials such as earth, stone, wood, coal, bark, and mortar. His architecture appeals to primordial instincts, promising warmth and protection. His structures serve as role models for a generation of young international architects who value a mode of building that is ecological, historically aware, and sustainable. This publication uses models, drawings, architectural plans, and photographs to examine the designs by Fujimori, who enjoys being referred to as the world's only Surrealist architect. 0Exhibition: Museum Villa Stuck, Mu nchen, Germany (21.6.-16.9.2012).

Naoya Hatakeyama
Naoya Hatakeyama

Author: Naoya Hatakeyama

Publisher: Aperture Foundation

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781597114325

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For the past thirty years, Japanese photographer Naoya Hatakeyama has undertaken a photographic examination of the life of cities and the built environment. Naoya Hatakeyama: Excavating the Future City is the first English-language survey on this renowned Japanese photographer; his work will be introduced by his own writings, as well as in-depth essays by Yasufumi Nakamori, Toyo Ito, and Philippe Forest.

Casa O'Gorman 1929
Casa O'Gorman 1929

Author: Xavier Guzmán Urbiola

Publisher: Rm

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788415118329

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After seven months of restoration, and a hard management for its purchase, the House of Juan O'Gorman projected in 1929 will reopen its doors in 2016. Located in front of the former Hacienda de Goicochea (today San Ángel Inn restaurant) was built in what was the tennis courts of the estate, lands acquired by Juan O'Gorman with the payment of fees for his collaborations with Carlos Obregón Santacilia. Completed in 1929, it is considered as 'the first functionalist home' in Mexico, in whichintentionally simplifies the naked use of concrete slabs and makes the slenderness of the posts look, evoking the "Maisons domino" of Le Corbusier (1914).