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Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.

All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.

I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.

The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution.

I'm a Jesuit when it comes to structure, but I really think that structure is defined by character. Everything serves that master.

And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.

To have a stable economy, to have a stable democracy, and to have a modern government is not enough. We have to build new pillars of development. Education, science and technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, and more equality.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms.

In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.