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.

I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.

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.

All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.

When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space.