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" Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city. "

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" All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space. "

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

" You always want to try to make something new, and, of course, America is the world leader in economics today. "

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

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

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

" In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo. "

" I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex - where it has stood before - and lead the world. "

" Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities. "

" Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials. "

" I don't look so closely at women's fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities, and fashion is one of the most fundamental ways in which they do this, men and women are equally able to express themselves. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture. "

" I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature. "

" When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before. "

" 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. "

" I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world. "

" 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. "

" In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe. "

" At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage. "

" 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 space. "