Global warming is a deadly threat precisely because it fails to trip the brain's alarm, leaving us soundly asleep in a burning bed.
As a building is resistant to forces acting upon it, a person must be equally tenacious in life.
I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.
The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of creativity to each building.
There was a wish to get something exceptional,. . . I also wanted to deliver something technically unique.
For me, architecture is an art the same as painting is an art or sculpture is an art. Yet, architecture moves a step beyond painting and sculpture because it is more than using materials. Architecture responds to functional outputs and environmental factors. Yet, fundamentally, it is important for me to stress the art in architecture to bring harmony.
The most touching thing that anyone can say to me is that I have done something beautiful for the community.
Nature loves simplicity and unity.
Then again, the name, the associations with a writer's name, can add to the reader's entertainment and pleasure.
A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.
One must work with time and not against it.