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

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 take the museum space also as sacred in a sense.

But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance.

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

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.

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