Here is a small bio and list of links to some interesting articles and interviews with Toyo Ito, architect and designer.

Icon Magazine: did you always want to become an architect?
Toyo Ito: in reality I always wanted to be a baseball champ.
I have always been athletic and played baseball.
at a certain point since I hadn’t managed to enter any university,
I had no choice but to sign up for architecture.

Toyo Ito is one of the world’s most innovative and influential architects.

Toyo Ito, Architect - Background:
Born in Japan in 1941, Toyo Ito graduated from Tokyo University, Department of Architecture in 1965.
Toyo Ito started his own architecture studio, ‘urban robot’ (urbot) in Tokyo, 1971; it became Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects in 1979.

Interviews and Articles

Toyo Ito: Image of Architecture in Electronic Age: designboom

Toyo Ito: Pavillion at the Serpentine Gallery - London 2002 (photos documenting the construction)

Toyo Ito: Nice Interview with Icon Magazine
Toyo Ito: Another Interview with Icon Magazine

Toyo Ito: Sendai Mediatheque Multi-purpose cultural centre made with steel tubular lattice structures. The building appears light by day, and also at night when the structure glows artifically from within. The Sendai Mediatheque contains a library, art gallery, audio-visual library, film studio, and cafe.