Toyo Ito's designs - in pictures

The 2002 Serpentine Gallery pavilion in London, co-designed with Cecil Balmond. The Guardian's Jonathan Glancey called it "one of the most exquisite and revolutionary buildings of recent times" Photograph: ARUP

A view from inside the Serpentine Gallery pavilion. The structure was based on a complex pattern derived from an algorithm of a cube that expanded as it rotated Photograph: ARUP

The Toyo Ito Pavilion in Bruges, Belgium. Constructed in the city centre, it was originally intended to remain for one year as part of the city's European Capital of Culture tenure in 2002, but it was eventually left standing Photograph: Christian Kober/Corbis

Toyo Ito's 1986 building, the Tower of Winds, in Yokohama-shi, Japan. The structure uses photo-responsive glass and responds to wind speed and direction Photograph: Tomio Ohashi/AP

The Yatsushiro Municipal Museum in Kumamoto, Japan, was built between 1988 and 1991 Photograph: Tomio Ohashi/AP

The Sendai Mediatheque, built between 1995 and 2001, in Miyagi, Japan. Speaking about its creation, Ito said: "During the open competition and subsequent phase of basic designing, our primary effort was on demolishing the archetypal ideas of an art museum or library to reconstruct a new idea of architecture called 'mediatheque' utilising the state-of-the-art media" Photograph: Nacasa and Partners Inc./AP

The Matsumoto Performing Arts Centre in Nagano, Japan. The structure is built on nine levels, two of which are underground. Ito: "I wanted to take the horseshoe-shaped, somewhat stuffy traditional Western opera-style grand hall, and add on a little something to say, 'Wait, that's not all there is to theatre'". Photograph: Hiroshi Ueda

The National Stadium in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, was built for the 2009 World Games. Most of the 55,000-capacity structure is covered with solar panels. It has one open end and is angled to use the prevailing summer wind direction to cool the stadium Photograph: Fu Tsu Construction Co., Ltd./AP

A view of the open end of the Kaohsiung stadium. Computer models were used to determine the angles necessary to protect spectators from the sun Photograph: Christian Richters/VIEW/Corbis

The Museum of Architecture in Imabari-shi, Ehime, Japan, was built between 2006 and 2011. It comprises two buildings, the Steel Hut and the Silver Hut, the latter being a reconstruction of Ito's own house in Nakano, built in 1984. Photograph: Daici Ano/AP

Another view of the Steel Hut section of the Imabari Museum of Architecture overlooking the Seto inland sea Photograph: Daici Ano/AP

The Meiso no Mori ("Forest of Meditation") Municipal Funeral Hal in Kakamigahara, Japan, is made of white concrete and glass and overlooks a small lake Photograph: Edmund Sumner/VIEW/Corbis

The O Dome in Odate, Japan, which was built between 1993 and 1997. Known as the "Sea of Trees Dome", it is used as an arena for baseball, football, tennis and other events Photograph: Mikio Kamaya

The Za-Koenji Public Theatre in Tokyo, Japan. Built over six levels - three of them underground to comply with building height regulations - the theatre contains two auditoriums, exhibition areas and a cafe Photograph: PR

Toyo Ito, who has received the 2013 Pritzker prize Photograph: AP