“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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People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.
There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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.
