Japan lives with drastic segregation between the sublime, the ugly, and the utterly without qualities. Dominance of the last 2 categories makes mere presence of the first stunning: when beauty 'happens', it is absolutely surprising.

You need to look at inequality as a typical condition of modern society.

If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it.

The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.

There is no plateau of resting or stabilising. Once you are interested in how things evolve, you have a kind of never-ending perspective, because it means you are interested in articulating the evolution, and therefore the potential change, the potential redefinition.