It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or arc….

In all my works, light is an important controlling factor..

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

I create enclosed spaces mainly by means of thick concrete walls. The primary reason is to create a place for the individual, a zone for oneself with….

No matter how advanced society becomes, institutionally or technologically, a house in which nature can be sensed represents for me the ideal environ….

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

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

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

I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things..

You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge al….

If there is only one culture all over the world, that's not a good thing..

If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of ….

I want to create a space that moves people. It doesn't matter if it is a house, or a museum, or whatever. So, it is somebody sitting on that lawn, ju….

When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a….

I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind.

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….

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

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process..

I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at the same time as complex a….

There is a role and function for beauty in our time..

We borrow from nature the space upon which we build..