We often discuss housing refugees, but not how you help return refugees back to their home countries. As a result, in a post-disaster or post-conflict situation, we end up with intractable refugee camps that end up staying for decades.

If you focus on design, you can call yourself a designer. If you focus on the implementation of your design, you can call yourself an architect.

When your focus is social change and not financial change why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.

For me, I think the most exciting thing in architecture is the re-emergence of the locally-focused architect.

Design is about creating spaces for people to enjoy and of course, creating moments where you elevate the spirit, but 'design for good' is figuring out a program that not only creates better spaces, but creates jobs, creates new industry and really kind of raises the conversation about how we rebuild.

Forget your environmental footprint. Think about your ethical footprint. What good is it to build a zero-carbon, energy efficient complex, when the labor producing this architectural gem is unethical at best?

The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.