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Toyo Ito

Toyo Ito (1941-) is a Japanese architect known for creating extremely conceptual architecture, in which he seeks to simultaneously express the physical and virtual "worlds". He is a leading exponent of architecture that addresses the contemporary notion of a "simulated" city. considered "one of the world's most innovative and influential architects." Ito was born in Seoul, South Korea (at the time, Japan had colonized the country). Ito graduated from Tokyo University's Read more [...]

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Tadao Ando

Tadao Ando (born September 13, 1941, in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese architect whose approach to architecture was once categorized as critical regionalism. Ando has led a storied life, working as a truck driver and boxer prior to settling on the profession of architecture, despite never having taken formal training in the field. He works primarily in exposed cast-in-place concrete and is renowned for an exemplary craftsmanship which invokes a Japanese sense of materiality, junction and spatial narrative Read more [...]

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Shigeru Ban

Shigeru Ban ( born 1957 in Tokyo, Japan) is an accomplished Japanese and international architect, most famous for his innovative work with paper, particularly recycled cardboard paper tubes used to quickly and efficiently house disaster victims. Shigeru Ban was the winner in 2005 at age 48 of the 40th annual Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He was profiled by Time Magazine in their projection of 21st century innovators in the field of architecture Read more [...]

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Kenzo Tange

Kenzo Tange (September 4, 1913 – March 22, 2005) was a Japanese architect, and winner of the 1987 Pritzker Prize for architecture. He was one of the most significant architects of the 20th century, combining traditional Japanese styles with modernism, and designed major buildings on five continents. Kenzo Tange was also an influential protagonist of the movement structuralism. He said: "It was, I believe, around 1959 or at the beginning of the sixties that I began to think about what I was Read more [...]

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Arata Isozaki

Arata Isozaki (born 23 July 1931) is a Japanese architect from Oita, Oita. He won the RIBA gold medal in 1986. He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1954. Isozaki worked under Kenzo Tange before establishing his own firm in 1963. Other Information Name : Arata Isozaki Nationality : Japanese Birth date : July 23, 1931 Birth place : Japan Education : University of Tokyo (1954) Firm : Arata Isozaki & associates Notable Projects COSI Columbus, Columbus, Ohio, Read more [...]

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