Famous People with Name Toyo

Toyo Miyatake            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Toyo Miyatake: was a Japanese American photographer, best known for his photographs documenting the Japanese American people and the Japanese American internment at Manzanar during WWII.

Toyo Ito            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Toyo Ito: considered "one of the world's most innovative and influential architects" (Designboom).Ito is known for creating extreme conceptual architecture, in which he seeks to melt the physical and virtual worlds. He is a leading exponent of architecture that addresses issues of the contemporary notion of a 'simulated' city.Ito was born in Seoul, South Korea (at the time, Japan had colonized the country). Ito graduated from Tokyo University's, Department of Architecture in 1965. After working for Kiyonori Kikutake Architect and Associate from 1965 to 1969, he started his own studio, 'Urban Robot' (urbot) in 1971, in Tokyo. In 1979, the studio changed its name to Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects. Throughout his early career Toyo Ito constructed numerous private housing projects that revealed the hidden layer of urban life in Japan. His most remarkable early conceptual contributions were made through the projects of this scale. See White U in 1976 and Silver Hut in 1984.