People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.

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.

Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.

You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.

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

No matter how advanced society becomes, institutionally or technologically, a house in which nature can be sensed represents for me the ideal environment in which to live. From a functional viewpoint, the courtyard of the Rowhouse in Sumiyoshi forces the inhabitant to endure the occasional hardships. At the same time, however, the open courtyard is capable of becoming the house's vital organ, introducing the everyday life and assimilating precious stimuli such as changes in nature.

People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.