Installation view of Toyo Ito: On the Stream at Power Station of Art.
Toyo Ito: On the Stream
April 22–July 23, 2017
Power Station of Art
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Power Station of Art (PSA) is proud to hold the first global retrospective for the Pritzker Prize winning Japanese architect Toyo Ito, Toyo Ito: On the Stream. This exhibition includes all Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects’ key projects since its founding in 1971.
The exhibition title On the Stream gets its inspirations from an ancient Chinese tradition: the intellectuals drank liquor from cups that floated on a winding stream and stopped before them, shared their thoughts and raised their cups for celebrations. Similarly for Toyo Ito, his design career is just like constantly collecting water of thoughts from the ever-running stream of architectural innovations.
Echoing that title, a stream-like long table is placed in the center of the exhibition hall. Atop the table are more than 130 models from nearly 30 projects that Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects has undertaken. They are divided into six stages in chronological order, and each stage presents the most representative projects and their relevant models.
