I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.

The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization.

I always admire writers. My father was a writer, a poet. I always admire people who can clearly state their mind.

I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.

A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.

Individual; that means he has his own special way to communicate, which creates the form of him. In the information age, this expression and communication has become so different.

Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.