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

• I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
• If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
• 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 harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.
• I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
• 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.
• The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
• Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
• 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.
• All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.
• Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.