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Building a house in Japan. As our building is on a big street, it has to be fire proof. As such the building adds to the village like urbanity of Tokyo. Structures such as ours act as fire walls, protecting the low rise buildings behind.

Q: Who are you?
A: My name is Martin (van der Linden), I’m a Dutch architect living and working in Japan since 1996. My company is called van der Architects. www.vanderarchitects.com

Q: van der what?
A: I’ll make a video about it sometime.

Q: Why did you want to be an architect?
A: It was something I always wanted to be.

Q: Why did you come to Japan?
A: As a student I worked for one year for the Japanese architect Hiroshi Hara on the Kyoto Station.

Q: Why these videos?
A: Most videos about architecture are one to two hour lectures. As far as I know there are very few architecture vlogs on Youtube. I hope there is a need for it.

Q: Why one minute?
A: I would like to keep the stories short, concise, restricted to one subject. Like a One Minute Architecture Haiku.

Q: What is is you like about Japan?
A: Dedication and attention to detail.

Q: Anything else you want to add?
A: It’s weird interviewing myself, so please subscribe and ask questions in the comments section.