Architect Toyo Ito, who designed VivoCity, wins Pritzker Prize
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Japanese architect Toyo Ito (above), whose buildings have been praised for their fluid beauty and balance between the physical and virtual world, has won the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the prize's jury announced on Sunday, March 17, 2013. -- FILE PHOTO: AFP
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This publicity photo provided courtesy of Toyo Ito and Associates, Architects, shows Japanese architect Toyo Ito's Yatsushiro Municipal Museum in Kumamoto, Japan. Ito, whose buildings have been praised for their fluid beauty and balance between the physical and virtual world, has won the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the prize's jury announced on Sunday, March 17, 2013. -- PHOTO: AP
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This publicity photo provided courtesy of Toyo Ito and Associates, Architects, shows Japanese architect Toyo Ito's Sendai Mediatheque, 1995-2000, in Sendai-shi, Miyagi, Japan. Ito, whose buildings have been praised for their fluid beauty and balance between the physical and virtual world, has won the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the prize's jury announced on Sunday, March 17, 2013. -- PHOTO: AP
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This publicity photo provided courtesy of Toyo Ito and Associates, Architects, shows Japanese architect Toyo Ito's Toyo Ito Museum of Architecture, 2006-2011, in Imabari-shi, Ehime, Japan. Ito, whose buildings have been praised for their fluid beauty and balance between the physical and virtual world, has won the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the prize's jury announced on Sunday, March 17, 2013. -- PHOTO: AP
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This publicity photo provided courtesy of Toyo Ito and Associates, Architects, shows Japanese architect Toyo Ito's Main Stadium for The World Games 2009 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Ito, whose buildings have been praised for their fluid beauty and balance between the physical and virtual world, has won the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the prize's jury announced on Sunday, March 17, 2013. -- PHOTO: AP
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The exterior of VivoCity in Singapore, which was designed by Japanese architect Toyo Ito. Ito, whose buildings have been praised for their fluid beauty and balance between the physical and virtual world, has won the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the prize's jury announced on Sunday, March 17, 2013. -- BH FILE PHOTO: TUKIMAN WAJI
Japanese architect Toyo Ito (above), whose buildings have been praised for their fluid beauty and balance between the physical and virtual world, has won the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the prize's jury announced on Sunday, March 17, 2013. -- FILE PHOTO: AFP
This publicity photo provided courtesy of Toyo Ito and Associates, Architects, shows Japanese architect Toyo Ito's Yatsushiro Municipal Museum in Kumamoto, Japan. Ito, whose buildings have been praised for their fluid beauty and balance between the physical and virtual world, has won the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the prize's jury announced on Sunday, March 17, 2013. -- PHOTO: AP
This publicity photo provided courtesy of Toyo Ito and Associates, Architects, shows Japanese architect Toyo Ito's Sendai Mediatheque, 1995-2000, in Sendai-shi, Miyagi, Japan. Ito, whose buildings have been praised for their fluid beauty and balance between the physical and virtual world, has won the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the prize's jury announced on Sunday, March 17, 2013. -- PHOTO: AP
This publicity photo provided courtesy of Toyo Ito and Associates, Architects, shows Japanese architect Toyo Ito's Toyo Ito Museum of Architecture, 2006-2011, in Imabari-shi, Ehime, Japan. Ito, whose buildings have been praised for their fluid beauty and balance between the physical and virtual world, has won the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the prize's jury announced on Sunday, March 17, 2013. -- PHOTO: AP
This publicity photo provided courtesy of Toyo Ito and Associates, Architects, shows Japanese architect Toyo Ito's Main Stadium for The World Games 2009 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Ito, whose buildings have been praised for their fluid beauty and balance between the physical and virtual world, has won the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the prize's jury announced on Sunday, March 17, 2013. -- PHOTO: AP
The exterior of VivoCity in Singapore, which was designed by Japanese architect Toyo Ito. Ito, whose buildings have been praised for their fluid beauty and balance between the physical and virtual world, has won the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the prize's jury announced on Sunday, March 17, 2013. -- BH FILE PHOTO: TUKIMAN WAJI
Los Angeles (AP, Reuters) - Japanese architect Toyo Ito, whose buildings have been praised for their fluid beauty and balance between the physical and virtual world, has won the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the prize's jury announced on Sunday.
The 71-year-old joins such masters as Frank Gehry, I.M. Pei, Tadao Ando, Renzo Piano and Wang Shu in receiving the honour that has been called architecture's Nobel Prize.
Ito, the sixth Japanese architect to receive the prize, was recognised for the libraries, houses, theatres, offices and other buildings he has designed in Japan and beyond.
Some of Ito's creations include the curvaceous Municipal Funeral Hall in Gifu, Japan; the transparent Sendai Mediatheque library in Miyagi, Japan; the arch-filled Tama Art University Library in suburban Tokyo; the spiral White O residence in Marbella, Chile; and the angular 2002 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London.
