Sho Ito is a registered Architect and the founder of Studio – ITO (Studio-Interdisciplinary Thought Operations) a design and research studio based in London, UK. Ito graduated from the Architectural Association and has worked for Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, DRMM and AHMM across the commercial sector. He is currently a 1st year Studio Master and a 5th year Design Thesis Environmental and Technical Studies tutor at the AA, whilst also leading a design studio at the University of Westminster and the University of Cambridge. He has been an invited guest panel and given workshops at several UK universities and internationally.
Ito's personal interests are towards adopting digital tools to explore and iterate structural adaptation and retrofitting of new architectural elements with the existing fabric of the cities and buildings to further maximise its life expectancy to further provide new forms of spaces that is not only driven by environmental and technical solutions but is very much linked to an architectural and spatial implication.