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

When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community and often the community socially is broken.

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

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.

An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.

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.