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Japanese architect Toyo Ito wins Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honour
This publicity photo provided courtesy of Toyo Ito and Associates, Architects, shows Japanese architect Toyo Ito, whose buildings have been praised for their fluid beauty and balance between the physical and virtual world. He has won the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the prize's jury announced Sunday, March 17, 2013. Ito, the sixth Japanese architect to receive the prize, is recognized for the libraries, houses, theaters, offices and other buildings he has designed in Japan and beyond. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Toyo Ito and Associates, Architects, Yoshiaki Tsutsui)
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Japanese architect Toyo Ito has won the 2013 Pritzker Prize — often called the Nobel Prize of architecture.
Ito's buildings, which include libraries, theatres and homes, have been praised for their fluid beauty and balance between the physical and virtual world. The Pritzker announcement was made Sunday in Los Angeles by the prize's jury, which this year included U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.
The 71-year-old Ito is the sixth Japanese architect to receive the prize.
Breyer said in a statement that Ito's architecture "has improved the quality of both public and private spaces" and that it has "inspired many architects, critics and members of the general public alike."
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