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Are we architects free?Are we architects free from society ? Can we exist out of any specific time and space , in another expression? Questions such as these set the tone of our inquiry into Ito’s architecture. After all , unless we look into his architectural characteristics in close relation to the subject of time and space ,we will end up grasping only the surface of the content .Toyo Ito is an architect whose practice is based in Japan at the dawn of a new millennium. Like most of the well-known Janpanese architects, he did not study abroad but went to School of Architectural Engineering at Tokyo University. He set up his own office after working at an architectural firm for a few years upon graduation. He has been in private practice based in Tokyo since then .I am not sure whether it is necessary to recall you the statement of EH.Carr’s,”What is history ?” as the process of design in architecture could be an outcome of concersations carried out continuously with his surroundings. I am not here to remind you that an architect is a product of his generation that represents the spirit of the era but to point out that a study of an architect’s work without full comprehension of the period and time he has led his life is pointless. But then ,a series of mistakes we commit during our study on an architect ,Toyo Ito ,and his work very ofen stems directly from the very outset. Such errors that we easily for apply to Japanese architecture in general not simply limited to him alone. One of them is our presumption that we live in the same period as he does and the other is come from our misled conception that life in Tokyo or Japan is almost identical to that in Seoul Korea.These are nothing more than our gesture of guessing the content of a big filled only with misconceptions so long as our knowledge of Japanese architecture is only skin deep. Despite the proximity of the two countries , what believe is that Japan and Korea are two completely different countries