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I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.

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Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.

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All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.

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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.

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Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.

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Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.

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Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: Japanese

Type: Architect

Born: September 13th, 1941

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