(J) As an architect of international stature, Toyo Ito is the author of the White U house, the Silver Huts, the PAO projects, and, among many other projects, the Towers and Eggs of Winds, and recently of the Japanese pavilion at the World Fair in Hanover, and the multimedia library in Sendaï in Japan. To all these at times famous projects he is now adding a second aluminium house, which is a discreet way of celebrating a triple anniversary, first of all that of the completion, in 1971, of the first aluminium house at Fujisawa-Shi, Kanagawa; a first house which was also the first project of Toyo Ito's agency, the Urban Robot (Urbot) which he founded in Tokyo that same year, when he was 30. Six years after graduating from the Tokyo University Architecture Department, and after four years spent working with Kiyonori Kikutake & Associates, Toyo Ito produced the first in a long line of projects which he is now designing within his agency, which, in 1979, was renamed Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects, and has since become a cutting-edge agency in the international architectural landscape.

Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects
Ito (Toyo) (1941)
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• Aluminium house at Sakurajosui Setagaya-ku, Japon, 1999