"All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God."

“One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city”

“I like the model of people getting together to make something when they want to do it and not being dictated to by a cycle.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

“All the impressions which are made on us by Nature are designed to exercise our soul during its terms of penitence, to prompt us towards the eternal truths shown beneath a veil, and to lead us to recover what we have lost.”

“When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials.”

Source : Yoshio Taniguchi (1996). “The Japan Architect”

“To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.”

“Time spent in the cultivation of the fields passes very pleasantly.”

“You know, kids come to see me in the same way that their parents would go to see a rock concert.”

Source : "Where Pop Music Meets Dance Music". Interview with Taryn Haight, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2011.

“The future will present insurmountable problems- only when we consider them insurmountable.”