If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.

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

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

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

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

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.