Tetsuya Matsumoto is the founder and Head Architect Designer at KTX archiLAB based in Japan and a Lecturer of a space design course at Osaka University of Art. After graduating from the same university, he specialized in commercial space design and received several local and international design awards. KTX archiLAB has built a large portfolio of projects varying both in type and scale and includes clinics, restaurants, shops, showrooms, schools, and beauty salons just to name a few.

KTX archiLAB main activity is to provide high-end architectural design and interior design for commercial spaces. The company also builds these spaces for the projects that are located in the area where it is based.

Muse Design Awards is a great achievement for our practice, and we feel that winning such a prestigious award will strengthen our practice both business-wise and in our confidence in the work we are undergoing. Our clients will also feel more comfortable and trust the decisions we make while designing their spaces.

We have submitted the three latest completed projects to the 2019 MUSE Design Awards. We feel that our completed projects are developing year after year, we are getting more experience and more confidence in delivering unique spaces that provide an unexpected design solution to our clients.

Each of the three projects has its own specific challenges.

- For the Edge of the wood, the question was how to deliver a building that translates a gastronomical concept into built space.

- For the Racketectonics Archifixture, we were challenged to find a new way of presenting racket products in a retail space, that could be both more attractive and even more efficient.

- For the Panelarium, our challenge was to create a clinical space that advocates for the doctor's high-technological advances and respond to the intimacy requirement of a urology clinic in a limited space.

Of course, winning an award will help us to have more exposure and develop our business by reaching more clients. But we do believe that the main benefit of winning an award is the trust that our current and future clients will have in our professionalism and decisions taken along the design and the building process.

Japan, in addition to its economical muscles, since the post-war era was always regarded as one of the most innovative countries in the world and a leader in creation. This is a result of a long history of craftsmanship but also to the openness of society and all industries to the newest technologies and innovations.

There are two growing aspects of any human activities that will be taking over in the next decade and the creative industry will be the first one affected: - environmental responsibility and the AI technologies.

Get more technical skills, it will help expand your creativity to further dimensions.

Same as for students, technical details are a must learn and develop, but also never be satisfied, always changing and perfecting the project.

Work, work and work. First intentions are good, but develop them, change them, perfect them and never be satisfied.