Minimalist tactics

“seeking to erase conventional meaning from his works through minimalist tactics, developing lightness in architecture that resembles air and wind.”

I think Toyo Ito’s works that balance the aesthetic of the exterior facade and the function of interior space. He combines elements of minimalism with an embrace of technology, in a way that merges both traditional and contemporary elements of Japanese culture.

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion appeared to be an extremely complex random pattern was in fact derived from an algorithm of a cube that expanded as it rotated. The intersecting lines formed different triangles and trapezoids, whose transparency and translucency gave a sense of infinitely repeated motion. 

Taichung Metropolitan Opera House has finally officially opened. The design is notable for its cavernous, curved and folded interior forms, which produce a dramatic and complex section that is neatly resolved into a rectilinear exterior form.