2013年普立茲建築獎得主,日本建築師伊東豊雄 Toyo Ito: Forces of Nature 伊东丰雄;自然的力量 (英文版)
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.
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
About the Author
Jessie Turnbull is an architect in training practicing in New York. Born and brought up in rural Scotland, she studied womenswear design at London College of Fashion before completing her Bachelor of Arts in Architecture at the University of Cambridge. Upon graduation she received the prestigious Daiwa Anglo Japanese Scholarship and spent two years living in Tokyo, studying Japanese, and working for the internationally renowned young architecture firm Atelier Bow-Wow. She completed her graduate studies in architecture at Princeton University, where she was the recipient of the Stanley J. Seeger fellowship for study in Greece, and completed her thesis under Liz Diller. She currently works for Stan Allen Architect in New York, and teaches at Parsons the New School for Design.
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