Jörg H. Gleiter
The architect’s eye
Interview with the Japanese architect Toyo Ito
Toyo Ito is a trailblazer. Incessantly and playfully, for 30 years now he
has been constantly opening up new territory for architecture. Some...
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Jörg H. Gleiter
The architect’s eye
Interview with the Japanese architect Toyo Ito
Toyo Ito is a trailblazer. Incessantly and playfully, for 30 years now he
has been constantly opening up new territory for architecture. Some years ago – wrongly and prematurely – an attempt was made to label
him as a techno-futurist. Attention was too firmly fixed on the formal
aspects of his architecture. This is particularly characterised, it must be said, by the fact that it is constantly changing, making visible the spirit
of the contemporary age. If nevertheless we wish to try to sum up Ito’s
architecture, it is best described as being pervaded by air and light. It is In:
Zona
6
(Supplement
to
Abitare
#504/2010) this characteristic that is common to each different manifestation of his 1
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