TOYO ITO

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

We have to base architecture on the environment.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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