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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.