Itō Chūta
| Itō Chūta 伊東忠太 |
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| Born | 26 October 1867 Yonezawa, Yamagata |
| Died | 7 April 1954 Bunkyō, Tokyo |
| Nationality | Japan |
| Alma mater | Imperial University |
| Occupation | Architect |
Itō Chūta (伊東忠太?) (1867–1954) was a Japanese architect, architectural historian, and critic. He is recognized as the leading architect and architectural theorist of early twentieth-century Imperial Japan.
Second son of a doctor in Yonezawa, present-day Yamagata Prefecture, Itō was educated in Tokyo. From 1889 to 1892 he studied under Tatsuno Kingo in the Department of Architecture at the Imperial University.Josiah Conder was still teaching in the department, while Ernest Fenollosa and Okakura Kakuzō were also influential in the formation of Itō's ideas. For graduation he designed a Gothic cathedral and wrote a dissertation on architectural theory. His doctoral thesis was on the architecture of Hōryū-ji. He was professor of architecture at the Imperial University from 1905, then of Waseda University from 1928.
Itō travelled widely, to the Forbidden City with photographer Ogawa Kazumasa in 1901 and subsequently, after fourteen months in China, to Burma, India, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Europe and the United States. Later he was involved in the planning of Chōsen Jingū in Seoul and a survey of the monuments of Jehol in Manchukuo. He incorporated elements of the diverse architectural styles he encountered in his many writings and approximately one hundred design projects.
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