In what seems to be a visit to Kao Hsiung for the sole purpose of experiencing Toyo Ito’s stadium for the World Games, New York Times architectural critic Nicolai Ourousoff talks to the Japanese architect about his work and finds out more about the newly completed stadium.
AFTER nearly four decades of work Toyo Ito has earned a cult following among architects around the world, although he is little known outside his home country, Japan. Through his strange and ethereal buildings, which range from modest houses for the urban recluse to a library whose arched forms have the delicacy of paper cutouts, he has created a body of work almost unmatched in its diverse originality…
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