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.

I don't look so closely at women's fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities, and fashion is one of the most fundamental ways in which they do this, men and women are equally able to express themselves.

You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.

I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.

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

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

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.