The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture like Roman design, it looks to the community.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.