We will be welcoming the world-renowned architect Toyo Ito to hold an exhibition titled “The Making of the Taichung Metropolitan Opera House 2005–2014” in marking the 150th exhibition at TOTO GALLERY·MA.

This exhibition focused on the Taichung Metropolitan Opera House project that is currently nearing completion will feature models, drawings, documentary footage, and a wall-section mock-up to show how the project has developed since it was selected as the winning proposal in a competition held in 2005.

In the competition for Sendai Mediatheque (Sendai, Miyagi, 2001) held in 1995, Toyo Ito presented a daring proposal to create large open spaces by making flat floor slabs pierced by 13 tree-like structural tubes. The completed building continues to receive high praise internationally. In the Taichung Metropolitan Opera House competition in 2005, Ito proposed to create spaces formulated based on his concept of the “emerging grid,” which embodies a highly complex and rich system of order, and he was selected as the designer of the project. After overcoming many challenges, Ito’s endeavor to realize the innovative organism-like structure composed of three-dimensionally curved surfaces is now finally approaching its finale.