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

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

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

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

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

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning

Nevertheless, the basic forms, spaces, and appearances must be logical