DAY 5: up to the Kyusendo Edison Museum for a syposium and a meeting with the holy grail....Toyo Ito......the most venerable japanese architect

Toyo Ito is a famous japanese architect who is also a major consultant with the Kumamoto Art Polis. He was at this syposium which was primarily about the timber house we had just seen being unveiled.

For more info on Toyo Ito go to

http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/ito.html

The symposium had slides of teh construction of the building.

The venue for the symposium was the Kyusendo Edison Museum designed by Yasufumi Kijima+YAS&Urbanists

see http://en.kumamura.com/seeing.html