Architecture is “current circumstance”. The built form is thus an integrated part of its environment. I do not just make architecture as an object, but I wish to involve the surrounding context, influence others, and design something like a mass of air which wraps around architecture, people, and activities all together. It is more than an action to express architecture, but also an action to mark the “current” time using architecture as a resource.

The importance in designing this “current circumstance” in each region is to know what the “social capital” is in that area. A lot of the community has not realised their value and therefore they have not known the existence of their “social capital”. They are too close to understand themselves what their capital is. Architects today, when designing as professionals, are required to find the regions’ social capital and report back to the community. I believe that those important social capital needs to be utilised and well expressed through its architecture.

Katsuhiko Endo