Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Toyo Ito

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Japanese architect Toyo Ito.

Last updated on December 19, 2024.

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."

Japanese - Architect | Born: June 1, 1941

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

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

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

Toyo Ito

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

Toyo Ito

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

Toyo Ito

We have to base architecture on the environment.

Toyo Ito

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

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.

Toyo Ito

I will never fix my architectural style and never be satisfied with my works.

Toyo Ito

I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings

Toyo Ito

I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality.

Toyo Ito