There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.

In Architecture there is a part that is the result of Logical Reasoning and a part that is created through the Senses. There is always a point where they Clash. I don't think Architecture can be created without that Collision.

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

Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.

I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.

I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.