The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.
The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.
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 will approach the building and experience that spa...
I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
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 structure I seek to create.
My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.
Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.
People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage.
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.
All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.
If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.
I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
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.
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.
The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
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.