Toyo Ito famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Thinking #Pieces #Architecture
Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.
-- Toyo Ito

#Use #Needs #Architecture
I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality.
-- Toyo Ito

#Giving #Trying #Quality
We have to base architecture on the environment.
-- Toyo Ito

#Architecture #Environment
Children don't run around outside as much as they did. They sit in front of computer games.
-- Toyo Ito

#Running #Children #Games
I will never fix my architectural style and never be satisfied with my works.
-- Toyo Ito

#Style #Satisfied
Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.
-- Toyo Ito

#Cities #People #World
The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists.
-- Toyo Ito

#Dream #Optimism #Economy
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

#Cities #People #Community

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.
Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
That's what we do on 'Entourage.' We embed ourselves in legitimate authentic moments so wherever the action is happening, we're taking pieces from that red carpet.
Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.
Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full of wonder, beauty, or just plain delight.
Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.
Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.

Toyo Ito famous quotes

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