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

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

As long as you have an objective in your mind you are young.

Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.

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.

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

It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.