When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technolo….

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..

When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change..

Success will only happen with Afghans leading the charge, and it is far, far more important for Kabul to create and support a purpose-driven school o….

I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats..

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

An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist..

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..

Through training, practice, and a deep sense of optimism, architects see opportunities where others only see a void. This has been the driving princi….

A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then cr….

After two decades of reconstruction work, I want to work on projects that lay at the intersection of cultural diplomacy and national identity - ones ….

Families want their child to get an education; families want safe access to healthcare; families want a roof over their head. When we silo issues, we….

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 o….

Forget your environmental footprint. Think about your ethical footprint. What good is it to build a zero-carbon, energy efficient complex, when the l….

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. If y….

The fact that the president (Michelle Bachelet) was out giving minute-to-minute reports a few hours after the quake in the middle of the night gives ….

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-conflic….

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

Many feel that sitting at a screen sweating over the design of handrail details for the next cute downtown boutique hotel just doesn't make sense whe….

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