I like to think there is something deep in our own world of reality that will create a dynamic balance between technology and human existence, the relationship between which has a decisive effect on contemporary cultural forms and social structure.

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.

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

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.

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