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.

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

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

I take the museum space also as sacred in a sense.

Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.

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

At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage.