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

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

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

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

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.

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.

I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.