Awards
Toyo Ito has won many awards, including:
- 1986 - Architecture Institute of Japan Award for Silver Hut
- 1992 - 33rd Mainichi Art Award for Yatsushiro Municipal Museum
- 1997 - IAA 'interach ‘97' Grand Prix of the Union of Architects in Bulgaria Gold Medal
- 1998 - Education Minister’s Art Encouragement Prize in Japan
- 2000 - Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- 2001 - Gold prize of the Japanese Good Design Award
- 2006 - RIBA Royal Gold Medal
- 2008 - Frederick Kiesler Award for Architecture and the Arts 2008
- 2009 - Asahi Prize
- 2010 - Praemium Imperiale
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