toyo ito : architecture in electronic age is an extended form of media suit "in 1960s, m. mcluhan said that our clothing and shelter are form of our skin. from old times, architecture has served as a means to adjust ourselves to the natural environment. the contemporary architecture needs to function, in addition, as a means to adjust ourselves to the information environment. it must function as the extended form of skin in relation both to nature and information at once. architecture today must be a media suite. people, when clad in a mechanical suit called automobile, had their physical body expanded. people clad in a media suit have their brain expanded. architecture as media suit is the externalized brain. in the whirlpool of voluminous information, people freely browse through information, control the outside world and appear themselves to the outside world. instead of appealing to the outside world by armoring themselves with a hard shell-like suit, people do so by wearing a light and pliant media suit which is the figuration of information vortex."