My architecture is always incomplete, because completion means death.

知识最大的敌人不是无知，而是知识的幻觉。

I’d tell men and women in their mid-twenties not to settle for a job or a profession or even a career. Seek a calling. Even if you don’t know what that means, seek it. If you’re following your calling, the fatigue will be easier to bear, the disappointments will be fuel, the highs will be like nothing you’ve ever felt.

I've always been thinking about how to make Japanese art accepted globally.

Architecture is the art of making memories concrete.

I'm not trying to be the next anybody. I'm trying to be the first me.