I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality.
Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand. - Toyo Ito
Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.
- Toyo Ito
The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists. - Toyo Ito
The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists.
We have to base architecture on the environment. - Toyo Ito
We have to base architecture on the environment.
I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality. - Toyo Ito
I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in … - Toyo Ito
I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in …
I will never fix my architectural style and never be satisfied with my works. - Toyo Ito
I will never fix my architectural style and never be satisfied with my works.
Children don't run around outside as much as they did. They sit in front of computer games. - Toyo Ito
Children don't run around outside as much as they did. They sit in front of computer games.
I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings - Toyo Ito
I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings
Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever. - Toyo Ito
Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.
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