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Toyo Ito Biography and Profile
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Toyo Ito (伊東 豊雄Itō Toyoo, born 1 June 1941) is a Japanese architect known for creating conceptual architecture, in which he seeks to express the physical and virtual worlds simultaneously.
He is a leading exponent of architecture that addresses the contemporary notion of a “simulated” city and has been called “one of the world’s most innovative and influential architects.”
In his youth, Ito admits to not having a great interest in architecture.
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There were several early influences, however. His grandfather was a lumber dealer, and his father liked to draw plans for his friends’ houses. When Ito was a freshman in high school, his mother asked the early Modernist architect, Yoshinobu Ashihara, who had just returned to Japan from the U.S.
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