I think everyone needs a goal. And what kind of goal will be important. And for that we have to study and we have to be intelligent.

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

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.

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

The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.