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

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.

Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.

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

You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.

I think that capitalism has just gone too far. And it is actually not limited to the United States. The excesses of capitalism is making us suffer all over the world right now.

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