Toyo Ito
Toyo Ito
Toyo Itois a Japanese architect known for creating conceptual architecture, in which he seeks to simultaneously express the physical and virtual worlds. He is a leading exponent of architecture that addresses the contemporary notion of a "simulated" city, and has been called "one of the world's most innovative and influential architects."...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth1 June 1941
CountryJapan
Toyo Ito quotes about
I sometimes feel that we are losing an intuitive sense of our own bodies.
architect public
There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable.
architecture environment
We have to base architecture on the environment.
cities people community
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.
cities people world
Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.
dream optimism economy
The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists.