Toyo Ito Quotes

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

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  Thinking, Pieces, Architecture

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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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  Needs, Use, Architecture

  "Japanese architect awarded the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize". www.foxnews.com. March 18, 2013.

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• We have to base architecture on the environment.

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  Architecture, Environment

  "Japanese architect awarded the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize". www.foxnews.com. March 18, 2013.

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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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  Cities, People, Community

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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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  Giving, Trying, Quality

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

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  Style, Satisfied

  "2013 Pritzker Prize: Toyo Ito". Article by Vanessa Quirk, www.archdaily.com. March 19, 2013.

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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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  Cities, People, World

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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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  Running, Children, Games

  "Japanese architect on brink of stardom" by Nicolai Ouroussoff, www.sfgate.com. July 26, 2009.

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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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  Dream, Optimism, Economy

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