Toyo Ito
Toyo Ito

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

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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 every single city.

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Toyo Ito

We have to base architecture on the environment.

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Toyo Ito

There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable.

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Toyo Ito

I sometimes feel that we are losing an intuitive sense of our own bodies.

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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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Toyo Ito

Children don't run around outside as much as they did. They sit in front of computer games.

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Toyo Ito

The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists.