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.

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.

In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside.

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

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

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

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