Toyo ITO won the Pritzker Architecture Prize

On March 17, the Hyatt Foundation announced that Toyo ITO had been selected as a laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, an annual award to honor outstanding architects, often referred to as the Nobel Prize of architecture. His works were praised for their spirituality and poetic scope as well as for his attempt to expand the possibilities of architecture through such projects as Sendai Mediatheque. (Japanese)