Some of the best work that's happening right now is from architects who have remained in their home countries and who have focused on a local or national identity and the idea of critical regionalism.

When you build a beautiful building, people love it. And the most sustainable building in the world is the one that’s loved.

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.

Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact.

After two decades of reconstruction work, I want to work on projects that lay at the intersection of cultural diplomacy and national identity - ones that empower local communities to define progress, not have it sanctioned by others.

Treat the world like a failed state, then you can understand the players needed to fix it.

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