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: Forces of Nature documents the architects 2009 Kassler lecture at the Princeton University School of Architecture. Told primarily in Itos own voice; the book features the edited lecture transcript; as well as an interview with the architect by Julian Worrall and a new translation of Itos 1980 essay "The Projection of the Profane World onto the Sacred." Projects illustrated in the book include: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (unbuilt); Taichung Opera House; Tama Art University Library; and Kakamigahara Crematorium. Bringing together different strands of a long and fruitful career; Toyo Ito: Forces of Nature concludes with an afterword by Ito that addresses the exhibition Home for All; a response to Japans earthquake and tsunami disasters in March 2011.
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