The people are the architecture—they are the foundation and framework for everything we build. The people will shape the character of the building. Without them, there is no reason for walls or windows to exist, no need to think about when the sun rises, where the light will fall or what the orientation of a certain room should be. If we are to build anything useful or significant—a place where people feel like they belong—we have to spend twice as much time thinking about them as we do in front of our CAD drawings. It’s why we build, not what we build, that matters.
