I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.

I think everyone needs a goal. And what kind of goal will be important. And for that we have to study and we have to be intelligent.

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.

I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.

You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.

When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space.

My objective is to design a space that nobody else can come up with while using the material that anyone can use.