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

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

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

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

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

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.