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Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials.
When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.
Architecture begins where engineering ends.
If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.
All gardening is landscape painting.
Garden as though you will live forever.
At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage.
But in Japan, there's nothing like that, since the temple is made of wood. The divine spirit inside the building is eternal, so the enclosure doesn't have to be.
But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance.
I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
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.
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.
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.
I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
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