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Itō Chūta (伊東 忠太, 26 October 1867 – 7 April 1954) was a Japanese architect, architectural historian, and critic. He is recognized as the leading architect and architectural theorist of early 20th-century Imperial Japan.
Architect and architectural historian. The second son of ITO Yujun, feudal retainer of the Yonezawa domain. Graduated from the College of Technology of the Imperial University of Tokyo in 1892.
This article examines the intellectual and political environment that gave rise to the basic narrative structure in the writing of Chinese architectural history during the formative stage of the discipline through the career and works of the Japanese architectural scholar Ito Chuta (1867–1954).
The focus of this essay is a self-deining moment for the nascent profession in the 1890s when a young member, Itō Chūta (1867-1954), who would eventually become the pioneer historian and theoretician of architecture in his country, spoke ardently for the recognition of architecture as a ine art.
8 de jul. de 2020 · The architect Itō Chūta and the architectural historian Sekino Tadasu of the Tokyo Imperial University (now the University of Tokyo) were charged with the design and construction of central...
3 de feb. de 2020 · At the turn of the twentieth century, two architects—Itō Chūta in Japan and Rajendralal Mitra in Bengal—sought to counter Eurocentric accounts of aesthetic modernity by insisting on the inclusion of Japanese and Indian building traditions in the world history of architecture.
“World Observation: Itō Chūta and the Making of Architectural Knowledge in Modern Japan” historicizes the relationship between architecture (kenchiku) and observation (kansatsu) as both ideas were simultaneously imported, taught and critiqued in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century Japan.
