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"Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment."

"Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?"

"Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds."

"Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me about how I felt about Haiti. Then the camera went to our voodoo temple and saw a serious ceremony, a real ceremony."
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"The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds."


"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."


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


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