I didn't want to lose the human scale.

Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily.

If you look at the buildings, you'll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you go around and look at another facade and it looks as if it was designed by another man, you see.

Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.

I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine age has brought about a chaos that has to be somehow counterbalanced, I think.

And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.