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.

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities.

In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.

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

The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.

It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.