For me, there's no difference between what's temporary and what's definitive. I built the church in Kobe, which was supposed to be temporary, and peo….

I believe that the material doesn’t need to be strong to be used to build a strong structure. The strength of the structure has nothing to do with th….

People are not killed by earthquakes alone, but by collapsed buildings..

Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power. Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their po….

I'm not inventing anything new, I'm just using existing material differently..

Architecture is not about designing somehting from a free, fanciful idea. It is about discovering and establishing one's own principle, some kind of ….

I travel a lot. Japanese culture is very ancient and very strong. That's why most people who commission work from Japanese architects expect them to ….

I did a lot of tests, and I finalized my research. Paper has become a part of my visual vocabulary. You know, paper is an industrial material. You ca….

Everyone used to want to be star architects. That's no longer the case..

The most important thing, in order to forge one's own creative personality, is to travel, to see different environments, different cultures. I wanted….

An architect does not need to spend his whole career making monuments for rich people..