TOYO ITO 2002-2016

Description

Key to understanding Toyo Ito’s work in its various contexts is an introspective essay, “On Creating Architecture”, in which he writes, “From a certain point on, I came to believe that what is expected in contemporary architecture is ‘strength’ rather than ‘beauty’”. This extensive overview of the architect’s built works from 2002 to 2016 features many notable projects: La Gavia Park in Madrid, London’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, the Municipal Funeral Hall in Gifu, Hôpital Cognacq-Jay in Paris, TOD’S Omotesando Building in Tokyo, Taiwan’s Kaohsiung National Stadium, the Hermès Pavilion in Basel, Museo Internacional del Barroco in Mexico, CapitaGreen in Singapore, and more.

CONTENTS

• “On Creating Architecture”, Toyo Ito
• 2000-02 Brugge Pavilion, Bruges, Belgium
• 2002 Architects Competition Vestbanen, Oslo, Norway
• 2002 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2002, London, U.K.
• 1999-2003 Shinonome Canal Court CODAN Block 2, Koto, Tokyo, Japan
• 2000-04 Matsumoto Performing Arts Centre, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan
• 2002-04 TOD’S Omotesando Building, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
• 2004 Forum for Music, Dance and Visual Culture Competition, Ghent, Belgium
• 2004-  Gavia Park in Madrid, Madrid, Spain
• 2002-05 Island City Central Park “GRIN GRIN”, Fukuoka, Japan
• 2004-05 Dormitory for SUS Company Fukushima Branch, Sukagawa, Fukushima, Japan
• 2003-05 MIKIMOTO Ginza 2, Chuo, Tokyo, Japan
• 2004-06 ‘Meiso no Mori’ Municipal Funeral Hall, Kakamigahara, Gifu, Japan
• 2003-06 VivoCity, Singapore
• 2000-06 Hôpital Cognacq-Jay, Paris, France
• 2004-07 Tama Art University Library (Hachioji campus), Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan
• 2007 “Les Halles” Competition, Paris, France
• 2003-  Extention for “the Fair of Barcelona Gran Via Venue”, Barcelona, Spain
• 2005-08 ZA-KOENJI Public Theatre, Suginami, Tokyo, Japan
• 2007-08         SUMIKA PAVILION / SUMIKA PROJECT by TOKYO GAS Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan
• 2009 The New Deichman Main Library Competition, Oslo, Norway
• 2009 BAMPFA University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, California, U.S.A.
• 2004-09 White O, Marbella, Chile
• 2003-09 Facade Renovation “Suites Avenue Aparthotel”, Barcelona, Spain
• 2006-09 Kaohsiung National Stadium, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C.
• 2006-10 Belle Vue Residences, Singapore
• 2004-10 TORRES PORTA FIRA, Barcelona, Spain
• 2008-11 Toyo Ito Museum of Architecture, Imabari, Ehime, Japan
• 2009-11 House H, Hokkaido, Japan
• 2009-11 Ken Iwata Mother and Child Museum, Imabari City, Imabari, Ehime, Japan
• 2009-11 Yaoko Kawagoe Museum (Yuji Misu Memorial Hall), Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan
• 2009-11 Tokyo Mother’s Clinic, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
• 2012-13 ITO JUKU Ebisu Studio, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
• 2011-  “Home-for-All” Projects, Tohoku and Kumamoto, Japan
• 2011-13 Hermès Pavilion, Basel, Switzerland
• Products, Modular Bench “Naguisa”, Architecture of Dogs, URUSHI plates in an acrylic case
• Set design, “Le nozze di Figaro” set design, “La Mode” set design
• 2012 New National Stadium Japan International Design Competition, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
• 2011-  Crematorium and Akayama Historic Nature Park in Kawaguchi, Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan
• 2006-13 National Taiwan University, College of Social Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
• 2008-13 Songshan Taipei New Horizon Building, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
• 2013-  New Athletic Field and Sports Park in Aomori, Aomori, Japan
• 2013  Museum + / West Kowloon Cultural District Competition, Hongkong, China
• 2013-  Interior Design for the Reconstruction Project of Jikido in Yakushiji Temple, Nara, Japan
• 2014-  The Shinano Mainichi Shimbun Matsumoto Head Office, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan
• 2007-14 CapitaGreen, Singapore
• 2011-14 Residential Hall at Nanyang Drive, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• 2012-14 K-port / Isoya Suisan Minatomachi 1chome Branch, Kesen’numa, Miyagi, Japan
• 2015 New National Stadium Japan Proposal, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
• 2011-15 ‘Minna no Mori’ Gifu Media Cosmos, Gifu, Japan
• 2013-15 Yamanashi Gakuin University International College of Liberal Arts, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan
• 2010-16 Fubon Sky Tree, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C.
• 2014-16 Miyagi Gakuin Preschool “Mori no Kodomo-en”, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
• 2012-16 Museo Internacional del Barroco, Puebla, México
• 2016-  Mito Civic Hall, Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
• 2005-16 National Taichung Theater, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C.

288 pages, ills colour & bw / 31 x 30 cm / English, Japanese