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

Author: Toyo Ito & Associates (Japan)
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Publish Date: 2003-05-01
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 Japanese Buddhist Cultural Center" in the 1990s, the author developed an interest in glass. As a result, works featuring glass curtain walls, flat roofs, and box-like designs gradually increased. 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 Chapter 2 from the 1990s, mainly outlines projects that highlight box-like buildings with curved surfaces, which might be referred to as fluid structures.