致谢

Tadao Ando

Today, as an architect, I still feel fear.

Jun Aoki

Japan is moving in a wrong direction.

Shigeru Ban

In my country, architects are spoiled.

Nobody dares to ask them tough questions.

Hiroshi Hara

I still have the ‘60s revolution in me.

Itsuko Hasegawa

Female architects still have a tough time in Japan.

It seems, they have a better chance if they work in partnership

with a man.

Arata Isozaki

If architecture is so dumb and irrelevant like in Tokyo,

nobody cares.

Toyo Ito

We are entering a phase in Japan,

where we are pushed into a corner.

Kengo Kuma

My first architectural meetings were as a boy, with my father.

Kisho Kurokawa

Christian countries would never introduce the culture of Islam

into their sphere of influence.

Fumihiko Maki

To stay creative, I constantly have to shift

my thoughts between buildings.

Hiroshi Naito

You look at Japanese design magazines,

and nobody is addressing social issues.

Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA

If our opinions would be the same, we would be mute.

Kenzo and Noritaka Tange

If someone comes up to you with pictures and says,

“build me something like this”, then you will most likely fail if you try.

Terunobu Fujimori

Plants are uncontrollable and stubborn 　

all architects know that, but they are afraid to say it.

Kiyonori Kikutake

I never planned to become an architect,

but what else could I do? The Americans took our land.

I thought that I could create space by erecting towers.

Kazunari Sakamoto

As an architect, I must translate feelings into numbers.

Yoshio Taniguchi

I don’t have children of my own, so I consider

all my buildings to be children that I have to look after.

Yasuhiro Yamashita

I use core topics to guide myself and my staff,

like “anti-gravity”, “environment” and “cost transparency”.

FAMILY OF JAPANESE ARCHITECTS