International Architectural Design Detail Album 9: Toyo Ito / Lightweight Structure Building Details

Author: (Japanese) Itō Tatsuno Architectural Office
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Features: This book is divided into four chapters. Chapter 1 organizes the architectural works from 1984 to the early 1990s, including the "Hachioji City Museum · Future Forest Museum" phase. Chapter 2, starting from the "Competition for the Design of the Japan Buddhist Cultural Center" in the 1990s, the author developed an interest in glass, leading to an increase in projects featuring glass curtain walls, flat roofs, and box-like designs. This chapter summarizes small office buildings such as "Nakameguro T Building" and "Minami-Yamashita F Building." Chapter 3 summarizes residential designs. Chapter 4, although somewhat repetitive of the 1990s in Chapter 2, mainly covers projects that highlight box-like buildings with curved surfaces, which might be referred to as fluid structures.