Tetsuya Matsumoto is the founder and Head Architect Designer at KTX archiLAB based in Japan, as well as a Lecturer at Osaka University of Art. After graduating from the same university, he engaged in various architectural and interior design projects. His work spans a wide range of categories and scales, with a primary focus on hospitality, commercial, and medical facilities. His projects showcase the elegance of simplicity, the beauty of functionality, and delicacy in cost controlling the designs. Tetsuya has received over 160 design prizes from 16 different countries, including prestigious awards such as the Red Dot Award, iF Design Award, Chicago Good Design Award, K Design Award, APIDA, DFA, and Japan’s Good Design Award. In 2017, he served as the jury chairman for the Asia Design Prize and has been a judge for 10 international design awards from 9 countries.