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Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact.
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An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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Hats
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The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.
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Architecture
Democratization
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Treat the world like a failed state; then you can understand the players needed to fix it.
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Treat the world like a failed state, then you can understand the players needed to fix it.
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For me, I think the most exciting thing in architecture is the re-emergence of the locally-focused architect.
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Architecture
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Thinking
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When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
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Business
Believe
Massive
Matter
Survival
Sustainability
Change Believe Your
Being
Create
Viewed
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When you build a beautiful building, people love it. And the most sustainable building in the world is the one that’s loved.
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Beautiful
People
World
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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Buzz
Percent
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Sustainability
World
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Word
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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.
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Design
Architect
Focus
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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.
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Want
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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.
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Innovation
Social Change
Openly
Shared
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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 you an indication of their disaster response.
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Giving
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If you're a pioneer and you come up with something that can change the world and you turn round and say 'I'm not going to share this idea with anyone,' then you only impact the few and not the many.
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Change World Change The World
Change The World
Change World Impact
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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.
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Home
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Ideas
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Through training, practice, and a deep sense of optimism, architects see opportunities where others only see a void. This has been the driving principle behind Architecture for Humanity since our founding.
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Opportunity
Optimism
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A career is a job you love, right? That's what a career should be. If you're in a job that you hate, you should quit. That's the way I look at it. I'm in a job that I love so I'm going to make it my career.
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Jobs
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Hate
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A career is a job you love, right? That's what a career should be. If you're in a job that you hate, you should quit. That's the way I look at it. I'm in a job that I love, so I'm going to make it my career.
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Hate
Love Look Way
Job
Career
Love Hate Look
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Forget your environmental footprint. Think about your ethical footprint. What good is it to build a zero-carbon, energy efficient complex, when the labor producing this architectural gem is unethical at best?
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Zero
Inspiration
Motivation
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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 end up with solutions that are in conflict with each other.
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Children
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Safe
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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 of architecture than to invite a high profile designer to build.
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Important
School
Support
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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.
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Community
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Two
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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.
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Home
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Return
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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.
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Dream
Optimistic
Architect
Artist
Beautiful
Community
Diverse
Happens
Life Happens
Needs
Realist
Tangible
Users
True
Loved
Concerns
Create
Extract
Number
Large
Solution
Stakeholders
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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 when more than 150,000 people have lost their lives, more than five million people have been made homeless and whole towns have been swept away.
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Cute
Smile
Design
People
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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.
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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 out a program that not only creates better spaces, but creates jobs, creates new industry and really kind of raises the conversation about how we rebuild.
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Jobs
Design
Space
Conversation
Creating
Moments
Program
Raises
Good Better People
Creates
Elevate
Figuring
Rebuild
Spaces
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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.
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Broken
Crush
Designer
Maintenance
Old World
Technology Design World
Burdens
Destroy
Developed
Developed World
Failed
Socially
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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 you're a pioneer and you come up with something that can change the world and you turn round and say 'I'm not going to share this idea with anyone' then you only impact the few and not the many.
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Focus
Ideas
Impact
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