Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.

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

Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials.

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

If there is only one culture all over the world, that's not a good thing.

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

You always want to try to make something new, and, of course, America is the world leader in economics today.