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

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.

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.

We've been wearing sweaters and hats. We had plastic put over the windows outside too.

The last thing you want is to build a lot and have it empty.

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