A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.

Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God's creation.

The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms. This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.

We try to avoid the single-building syndrome. You have to look at the big picture. If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn’t work. You have to do it all together.

There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.

A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.

Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples' cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.