Completed in 1976 in Nakano, Japan. Toyo Ito was commissioned for this building by his older sister after her husband sadly lost his battle with cancer in the 1970s. Having lived for a ...

Toyo Ito, a 71-year-old architect based in Japan, is the winner of the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize. ... Take "White U," the house he built for his sister in 1976.

The story of the U-House – how Toyo Ito built a white U-shaped building for his sister to help her in the wake of her husband’s death from cancer – and why the building was eventually demolished ...

The two Ito projects that will probably endure in the textbooks are his White U house of 1976, and his Sendai Mediatheque of 2000. Born in Seoul to Japanese parents in 1941, Ito grew up near ...

In 1976, he designed “White U”, a home for his sister (pictured above), ... "The Life and Work of Toyo Ito, 2013 Pritzker Laureate " 17 Mar 2013. ArchDaily.

NEW YORK — Japanese architect Toyo Ito has been awarded the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize, ... imaginative projects like 1976's "White U," a U-shaped home designed for his widowed sister, ...

Toyo Ito, a 71 year old architect whose architectural practice is based in Tokyo, Japan, will be the recipient of the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize. ... White Papers. Codes and Standards. Women in ...

The Pritzker Prize jury, which included Lord Peter Palumbo, an internationally known architectural patron of London, and renowned architects Glenn Murcutt, Yung Ho Chang, Juhani Pallasmaa and ...

LOS ANGELES — 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 ...