Toyo Ito Quotes

Toyo Ito — Japanese Architect born on June 01, 1941,

Toyo Ito 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.".. (wikipedia)

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

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

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.

Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.

We have to base architecture on the environment.

Toyo Ito Quotes

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