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Toyo Ito: Forces of Nature
Author(s): Jessie Turnbull
- Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
- Publication Date: October 3, 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 144 pages
- ISBN-10: 1616891017
- ISBN-13: 9781616891015
Book Description
The work of Japanese architect Toyo Ito explores the dynamic relationship between buildings and their environments. His principal focus is on developing an architecture free of the grid system, which he believes homogenizes people and their lives. Toyo Ito: Force of NatureHome for All, a response to Japan’s earthquake and tsunami disasters in March 2011.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“At a lecture entitled Liquid Space, given at Princeton in 2009 and transcribed in the book Forces of Nature, Ito describes how he has spent the last decade working against the generic grid imposed on our buildings and cities by 20th-century modernism.” — The Guardian
