Toyo Ito Professions : Architect Born : June 1, 1941 Browse All Authors Top 11 quotes by Toyo Ito I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings Toyo Ito pieces architecture thinking Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand. Toyo Ito architecture use needs I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality. Toyo Ito quality trying giving We have to base architecture on the environment. Toyo Ito environment architecture 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. Toyo Ito community cities people I will never fix my architectural style and never be satisfied with my works. Toyo Ito satisfied style Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever. Toyo Ito cities people world Children don't run around outside as much as they did. They sit in front of computer games. Toyo Ito games running children The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists. Toyo Ito optimism economy dream There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable. Toyo Ito buildings feel free never I sometimes feel that we are losing an intuitive sense of our own bodies. Toyo Ito own feel losing sometimes Similar Authors Ben van Berkel architect Bruno Zevi architect Bruno Freschi architect Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin architect Arthur Erickson architect Arne Jacobsen architect All Authors
