Toyo Ito | Blurring Architecture
"Toyo Ito: Blurring Architecture" analyzes the work of Toyō Itō, and how they made him a forefront in international architecture. The text dissect Itō's subjective meaning of space, and how he relates music and architectural emptiness as more than just blank space, integrating this so called "lack of", into a design that stands for his beliefs and his message. Also, an emphasis is placed on Itō's style of versatility, which not only applies to space, but time as well, therefore creating designs that can mold to any time and function.
"Toyo Ito: Sendai Mediatheque (Case Series)" by Ron White focuses on the innovative structure on Toyō Itō's designs, and how he utilizes steel and aluminum as the basis of his paradigm-shifting buildings. In this volume he hones in on the Sendai Mediatheque, and the philosophy behind it. Concepts such as "digital ecology" is explored, and how Ito conceptualizes organisms through multiple facets aside from the physical body. These complex concepts where real and surreal form a balance is the center of the Sendai Mediatheque's design, and gives readers a in-depth look at Toyō Itō philosophy beyond architecture, through architecture.