Computer games Quotes by Toyo Ito

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

— 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

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

— Toyo Ito

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

— Toyo Ito

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

— Toyo Ito

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

— Toyo Ito

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

— Toyo Ito

We have to base architecture on the environment.

— Toyo Ito

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

— 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…

— 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