ITO Toyo won the Pritzker Architecture Prize

On March 17, the Hyatt Foundation announced that ITO Toyo was chosen as a winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the annual award to honor outstanding architects, which is 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)