All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.

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

My objective is to design a space that nobody else can come up with while using the material that anyone can use.

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.

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

When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space.

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