Toyo Ito quotes
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“I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings”
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“Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.”
-- Toyo ItoSource : "Japanese architect awarded the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize". www.foxnews.com. March 18, 2013.
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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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“We have to base architecture on the environment.”
-- Toyo ItoSource : "Japanese architect awarded the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize". www.foxnews.com. March 18, 2013.
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“Children don't run around outside as much as they did. They sit in front of computer games.”
-- Toyo ItoSource : "Japanese architect on brink of stardom" by Nicolai Ouroussoff, www.sfgate.com. July 26, 2009.
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“I will never fix my architectural style and never be satisfied with my works.”
-- Toyo ItoSource : "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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“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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“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
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Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.43, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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