Toyo Ito is a renowned architect based in Tokyo who has designed beautiful buildings throughout the world. He is principal of Toyo Ito & Associates, an architectural firm that has collaborated on many projects with Frank Gehry. His designs are often experimental, creative, and often include visible structural elements that allow for various levels of viewing and interaction. He won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2014 and was named as one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in 2012.
Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.Toyo Ito
We have to base architecture on the environment.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 used to exist in every single city.Toyo Ito
