Until his third year of high school, Toyo Ito’s passion was not architecture, but baseball. Fortunately for us all (and almost assuredly for the Pritzker laureate himself), he soon switched ...

The latest piece of architecture to disappear into the economic abyss? It’s Toyo Ito‘s remarkable design, above, for the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Unveiled last year wit ...

Toyo Ito’s works have been marked by the synergy of organic-like structures and technology on one side, and poetics and minimalist design on the other. His cutting-edge public library in Sendai ...

In a return to form for the most prestigious award in architecture, Japan’s Toyo Ito has won this year’s Pritzker Prize. After honoring younger and lesser-known figures in recent years ...

Paying construction workers, site overseers, project managers. It takes a lot of cash. Ito’s buildings draw upon our experience of nature, bring us closer to the site’s environs, and anchor us ...

Nobody could tell how and when this building would settle into the right shape within the budget," architect Toyo Ito said at the Oct. 16 opening of "Toyo Ito: The Making of the Taichung ...

Toyo Ito extends his interest in spatial complexity in this project for the Taichung Metropolitan Opera House. Based on a few geometric rules, the project exhibits more of his recent interest in fluid ...

He doesn't have the name recognition of a Frank Gehry or a Daniel Libeskind, but Toyo Ito is one of Japan's most acclaimed and adventurous architects. Looking at the design for a downtown Berkeley ...

Japanese architect Toyo Ito is gifting ephemera representing his office’s early works to the Canadian Centre for Architecture. (Courtesy CCA) Among the donations are drawings and models of White ...