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

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

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

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.

Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.

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

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