Toyo Ito

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Toyo Ito (2009)
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Toyo Ito ( Japanese 伊 東 豊 雄 Itō Toyoo ; born June 1, 1941 in Keijō (now Seoul ), Korea ) is a Japanese architect.

Life

Ito was born in Japan-annexed Korea and graduated from Tokyo University in 1965 with a degree in architecture . He first worked from 1965 to 1969 for the architectural firm “ Kiyonori Kikutake Architect and Associate” and in 1971 founded his own office under the name “Urban Robot” in Tokyo . The name was changed in 1979 to "Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects".

At the beginning of his career, Ito designed numerous private houses. Ito soon made a name for himself as a conceptual architect who merges the physical and virtual world. With his works he addresses questions of the contemporary notion of a “simulated” place. With the Pao for the Tokyo Nomad Girl project from 1985, Ito created a vision of the modern, urban nomad, harnessed to the Japanese bubble economy . Tower of Winds in Yokohama from 1986 and Egg of winds from 1991 are interactive landmarks in public space, which are intended to provide a creative examination of the technical possibilities of the future.

Toyo Ito supports young, talented architects in Japan, for example Kazuyo Sejima .

Critical visions

Ito's works are influenced by the Japanese philosopher Munesuke Mita and the concept of the nomad by Gilles Deleuze .

Ito has defined architecture through his projects with small houses as: “Dress” for individuals in urban life, especially in the life of Japanese metropolises.

The newest works make use of works of postmodernism . They vigorously explore the new potential of design language.

Exhibitions

In 1991, Ito used 130 video projectors to depict Tokyo’s urban environment as a vision of Japan at an exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum . Ito pursued the same principle in the 2000 exhibition Vision and Reality at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. In the exhibition Blurring Architecture , which was shown in Aachen, Tokyo, Antwerp, Auckland and Wellington, Ito attempted the “virtual” anchoring of architecture in the human To discover spirit. Another exhibition followed in 2001 in the Basilica Palladiana in Vicenza , in which Ito showed a review of his own work and was also responsible for the exhibition design; In doing so, he completely darkened the historic building of the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio and presented his projects as a multimedia installation made up of video projections, photos, drawings and models.

Ito also designed the Berlin-Tokyo / Tokyo-Berlin exhibition in 2006 in the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin . A graceful, hilly landscape was created that took up the main exhibition room. This exhibition was designed in collaboration with the Mori Art Museum .

Another exhibition at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, TOYO ITO - Generative Order , was devoted to all of his work in 2008 and especially to the three buildings that were being built in Taiwan at the time.

In November 2011, the Toyo Ito Architecture Museum, designed by Toyo Ito himself, was opened on the island of Ōmishima ( Imabari City , Seto Inland Sea , Japan), which has the shape of a ship deck.

Works (selection)

Current projects

Ito is currently working on other buildings in Taiwan: The Metropolitan Opera House in Taichung , which is shaped like an organic cell, is due to be completed at the end of 2013, and the New College of Social Science at the Taiwan National University in Taipei has been underway since Built in 2009.

Awards and honors

Teaching

Toyo Ito has been a visiting professor at Tokyo University and the Tokyo Women's University . He also holds an honorary professorship at the University of North London and has lectured as a visiting professor at Columbia University . He teaches at the Tama Art School as a visiting professor.

items

Alessandra Orlandoni: Interview with Toyo Ito . In: The Plan . 016, 2006

Web links

Commons : Toyo Ito  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hubertus Adam: "Tarzan in the media jungle" , in: NZZ of October 9, 2001
  2. ↑ Architizer News from November 3, 2011
  3. ↑ "Museum for Architect Toyo Ito opens" in JAPANMARKT from November 7th, 2011  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.japanmarkt.de  
  4. ^ Honorary Members: Toyo Ito. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Ito, Toyo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 伊 東 豊 雄 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese architect
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Seoul , Korea