I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning

Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.

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

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.

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

In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.