In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.

Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.

I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s.

We live in a world where great incompatibles co-exist: the human scale and the superhuman scale, stability and mobility, permanence and change, identity and anonymity, comprehensibility and universality.

I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter

Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.