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.

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

Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.

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

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

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