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

I think that capitalism has just gone too far. And it is actually not limited to the United States. The excesses of capitalism is making us suffer all over the world right now.

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

In Architecture there is a part that is the result of Logical Reasoning and a part that is created through the Senses. There is always a point where they Clash. I don't think Architecture can be created without that Collision.

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

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

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.