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

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.

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

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

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