We live in a world where great incompatibles co-exist: the human scale and the superhuman scale, stability and mobility, permanence and change, ident….

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban pla….

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society..

Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future..

I like to think there is something deep in our own world of reality that will create a dynamic balance between technology and human existence, the re….

Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself..

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need….

Nevertheless, the basic forms, spaces, and appearances must be logical.

In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions..

Inconsistency itself breeds vitality..

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long..

Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity..

I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s..

I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter.