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  • In many ways, the Media Lab is a real-world iteration of Ito's wildly divergent interests.

    MIT Media Labs: Meet the People Shaping Our Future Alex Wagner 2011

  • These activities are all part of Ito's desire to "keep pushing the edge" in a bid to keep his mind fertile and connections fresh.

    MIT Media Labs: Meet the People Shaping Our Future Alex Wagner 2011

  • The nine smaller tubes vary in size and diameter and are placed randomly throughout the building, some straight, some angled, echoing the idea of Mr. Ito's "floating seaweed."

    Why One Remained Standing Ada Louise Huxtable 2011

  • Mr. Ito's slender floor slabs were impossible to achieve in concrete without the conventional support of beams or walls; they would have been far too heavy and deep.

    Why One Remained Standing Ada Louise Huxtable 2011

  • Separated by almost a century and a revolution in technology from Mr. Ito's Mediatheque, Wright's building was equally radical in its pursuit of stylistic and engineering advances in its day.

    Why One Remained Standing Ada Louise Huxtable 2011

  • Mr. Ito's minimalist aesthetic, with its emphasis on lightness, fluidity and transparency, would have been unthinkable and impossible at that early date; the materials and technologies of modernism were being developed in more industrialized countries.

    Why One Remained Standing Ada Louise Huxtable 2011

  • These activities are all part of Ito's desire to "keep pushing the edge" in a bid to keep his mind fertile and connections fresh.

    MIT Media Labs: Meet the People Shaping Our Future Alex Wagner 2011

  • In many ways, the Media Lab is a real-world iteration of Ito's wildly divergent interests.

    MIT Media Labs: Meet the People Shaping Our Future Alex Wagner 2011

  • Architecture rarely goes viral on the Internet, but a video of Toyo Ito's Mediatheque in Sendai taken at the height of the Japanese earthquake has had an extraordinary run as an eyewitness and vertigo-inducing account of what it was like to be inside a building during the magnitude-9.0 earthquake that struck Japan on March 11. www.youtube.com/watch?

    Why One Remained Standing Ada Louise Huxtable 2011

  • The Internet gave us instant, live images of how Mr. Ito's building performed under stress.

    Why One Remained Standing Ada Louise Huxtable 2011

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