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

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

Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I had this daft idea to come and bury the past. Except the past is not quite dead.

Our knowledge is limited. However, reading augments our knowledge.

Our country is the only one that truly permits you to speak bad of your country, so you really shouldn’t say anything bad about it.

You broke her heart in person—you fix it in person!

We all know smoking is bad. I know I'm going to quit someday, if I thought I wasn't I'd quit now.

The power numbers are nice, but I'm most pleased that I've been consistent. Home runs come from having a consistent approach .

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise.

Ambition is an expensive impulse, one that requires an enormous investment of emotional capital. Like any investment, it can pay off in countless different kinds of coin.

To get people to compromise, you have to give them stuff.

It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.