The Most Famous
ARCHITECTS from South Korea
This page contains a list of the greatest South Korean Architects. The pantheon dataset contains 518 Architects, 1 of which were born in South Korea. This makes South Korea the birth place of the 40th most number of Architects behind Estonia, and Mexico.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary South Korean Architects of all time. This list of famous South Korean Architects is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Toyo Ito (b. 1941)
With an HPI of 60.39, Toyo Ito is the most famous South Korean Architect. His biography has been translated into 38 different languages on wikipedia.
Toyo Ito (伊東 豊雄, Itō Toyō, born 1 June 1941) is a Japanese architect known for creating conceptual architecture, in which he seeks to simultaneously express the physical and virtual worlds. He is a leading exponent of architecture that addresses the contemporary notion of a "simulated" city, and has been called "one of the world's most innovative and influential architects." In 2013, Ito was awarded the Pritzker Prize, one of architecture's most prestigious prizes. He was a likely front-runner for the Pritzker Prize for the previous 10 years. A recent trend has seen less experienced and well-known winners, for example Chinese architect Wang Shu in 2012, and the award to Toyo Ito is seen as recognition of a lifetime's achievement in architecture.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as South Korean architects born between 1941 and 1941. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living South Korean architects include Toyo Ito.
