Toyo Ito quotes:
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Children don't run around outside as much as they did. They sit in front of computer games.
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Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.
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The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists.
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We have to base architecture on the environment.
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There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable.
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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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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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I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality.
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I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings
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I will never fix my architectural style and never be satisfied with my works.