The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
AGA KHAN IVThis means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.
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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity.
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Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.
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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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We try to avoid the single-building syndrome. You have to look at the big picture. If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn’t work. You have to do it all together.
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Unless these unfortunates can be touched with the spark which ignites the spirit of individual enterprise and determination, they will only sink back into renewed apathy, degradation and despair. It is for us, who are more fortunate, to provide that spark.
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My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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One of the central lessons I have learned after a half century of working in the developing world is that the replacement of fear by hope is probably the single most powerful trampoline of progress.
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Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.
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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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There are those… who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their lot.
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God has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation
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Pluralist societies are not accidents of history. They are a product of enlightened education and continuous investment by governments and all of civil society in recognizing and celebrating the diversity of the world’s peoples.
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