There are self-made millionaires - their aspiration is first to make money. But the once that goal is achieved, they have to look for something and sometimes they become patrons of art or museums. And that is how the world should go.

I take the museum space also as sacred in a sense.

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

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

Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.

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

I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex - where it has stood before - and lead the world.