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Iroha Ito

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Academic Research Areas

  • Architectural design
  • Architectural installations
  • Architectural representation

Iroha Ito is an architectural designer, artist, and cofounding principal of LUCITO with Andrew Lucia based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Their work spans scale, medium, and context — from architecture and landscape to writing, printmaking, installation, and sculpture. Their creative process is one of finding the project through context, dialogue, historic reference, and material constraint. Each work is approached as an open-ended process without preconceived notions of material, form, and concept, wherein each intervention evolves out of an act of discovery and limitation.

Prior to LUCITO, Ito worked in award-winning architecture firms in New York City, Ithaca, Tokyo, and Kyoto. Ito holds a Master of Architecture from Cornell AAP with distinction.

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Academic Research Areas

  • Architectural design
  • Architectural installations
  • Architectural representation
  • A photo of a spacious, historic living room with a white marble fireplace, dark blue walls, and ornate white trim. There is a large white pendant light hanging from the ceiling and a mirror reflecting the room on the left wall. A doorway leads to another room on the right, and a large window with white curtains is visible in the background.
  • A dark, minimalist art installation featuring a large white curved wall with a black square in the center. The square has a glowing green circle inside of it, and there are faint green lines projecting from the circle onto the wall. The room is dimly lit, with a single light source casting a shadow on the wall.
  • A long, modern hallway with white walls, a brown wooden floor, and a black and white abstract artwork on the ceiling. There are several elevators lined up along one side of the hallway.
  • A 3D rendering of a modern, minimalist building on a hill. The building is made of gray concrete and has a geometric shape with a sharp angle. There is a smaller building attached to the side, and both buildings are surrounded by a dirt hill. The sky is cloudy and gray.

LUCITO and Blakelock Architectures, Residence H (2023), Philadelphia, PA. image / Peter J. Sieger

LUCITO and John Zissovici, Where We Be? (2023), John Hartell Gallery, Ithaca, NY. image / LUCITO

LUCITO, Likeness of an Allegory (2021), Minneapolis, MN.

LUCITO + SEH, Inc., Rendering of the Hull Rust Mine View Overlook Buildings (2024), Hibbing, MN. image / LUCITO

Publications

Classes

  • Design III

    ARCH 2101

  • Special Topics in Visual Representation I: Mind Your Space

    ARCH 4509/6509

Selected Exhibitions and Presentations

  • Where We Be

    Group exhibition with John Zissovici, mixed media, John Hartell Gallery, Ithaca, NY, 2023.

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