Fumihiko Sano is a famous Japanese architect who was born in 1981. He began his career as an apprentice to a Sukiya carpenter at Nakamura Sotoji Komuten in Kyoto. The originality of his design lies in the fact that he has the perspective of an architect who looks down on the whole and the perspective of a carpenter who captures the actual size of the building.

Yinji：What do you think about the presentation of art in space?Who is your favorite artist？
Sano：Space is very interesting, and art is everywhere within it. Even if it's just two iron plates standing together, even if it's just a change of light, you can feel the presence of space just by standing in the middle. In this sense, I think the works created by Richard Serra and Olafur Eliasson are spatial. Yinji：What do you think of the relationship between natural materials, local culture and architecture?

Yinji：From the craftsman to the founder of the architectural firm, what are the challenges in this process?
Sano：The carpenter's job is to make what is entrusted. Probably because of this, most carpenters lack the ability to make a presentation. In this process, I think the most difficult thing is to find out what they want to do and how to convey their ideas to others. Yinji：How to integrate technology, materials and culture into design?

Yinji: How to integrate technology, materials and culture into the design?
Sano: How to process materials that have never existed before, and materials that could not be processed before, into shapes that have not been able to be processed until now using technologies that have never existed before. A series of such things can create new things. I think this is Created a new culture. Isn’t that the design?

Yinji：What do you think about the presentation of art in space?Who is your favorite artist？
Sano：Space is very interesting, and art is everywhere within it. Even if it's just two iron plates standing together, even if it's just a change of light, you can feel the presence of space just by standing in the middle. In this sense, I think the works created by Richard Serra and Olafur Eliasson are spatial. Yinji：What do you think of the relationship between natural materials, local culture and architecture?

Yinji: What do you think of the relationship between natural materials, local culture and architecture?
Humans and nature have lived together for thousands of years. In the past few decades when the logistics has been developed, the land culture is weak. Local culture rooted in terroir, and the easiest thing to understand is architecture. I think natural materials and culture should also be inherited geographically in the future.

Yinji：How are the details of the design presented?
Sano：We are always thinking about what the details should look like and in the building industry the word 'settle' is often used. Stable installations and beautiful combinations are praised for being "well settled".I choose materials and combinations of materials that fit the concept I want to give to the space and choose beautiful and functional details to express it.