Are there architectures that embody happiness for you?

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The city of Tokyo, where I live, is getting ready to host the Olympic Games in 2020 and is in huge development, but I don't believe that this really represents happiness. Very often we relate happiness to economic wealth, but that is not a decisive factor to the achievement of a man's happiness.

We have to seek happiness beyond economic wealth and that kind of inner richness could become an element that help us in Architecture.

I recently visited a small island of Japan where, together with the residents, we are trying to find new methods to increase our happiness and this is becoming a really important theme to me.

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What advice would you like to give to all the young architects like us?

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When you think about an architecture project, you always have to design by facing with other people who are going to live in that place, otherwise you can never realize a good project.