Toyo Ito was born in Japan in 1941. Graduating from Tokyo University in architctecture he opened his own practice in Tokyo. His work has been displayed at many exhibitions and he has been awarded many design prizes. He has recently worked on the Health Future installation in Hanover, Sendai Mediathèque, an aluminium pavilion in Bruges and is currently designing the Cognacq-Jay Hospital in Paris, the M-Hall at Matsumoto, Nagano and the Mahler 4 office tower in Amsterdam.