Architecture is not for selected few but EVERYONE.  The upper 1% can buy with their wealth, the bottom 5% are taken care of by the government.  The challenge for each architect is to also serve the middle from the bottom 5% to the upper 1%.  That is social justice in architecture.

If Disneyland is to Apple Macintosh in its integrated design, Las Vegas is to IBM PC in its open source method.  But both employ Robert Venturi’s “ugly and ordinary” design approach.

Creativity is to solve design problems, not to creatively force the realization of heroic design ideal.

We expect our buildings to be flexible and adaptable but fail to recognize that we, human, are the most adaptable creature.  Architecture is heavy and static and, therefore, shall not be expected to be able to be changed too much without significant intervention.

London is historic, Paris is grand, and Basel is organized.

Although COVID-19 devastates the world in so many ways, the bright side of it shows that human activities do impact the environment and that nature is capable of self-healing. We see this in the evidence of lower pollution numbers in our air and water.  It also proves that working remotely, consume less, commute less, focus on meaningful human interaction can be done.  We have learned our lesson and, when we are out of this pandemic, we should retain those good habits to make the world a better place in the future.