Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.

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

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

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

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