There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.

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

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.

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

Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.