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

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

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.

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.

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