Toyo Ito

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

We have to base architecture on the environment.

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.

There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.