“When I was an architecture student about 13 years ago, I went to Bangladesh, to a remote village called Rudrapur with the aim to design and build a school as my thesis project. I had lived in that village before when I was 19, and a volunteer at Dipshikha, a Bangladeshi NGO for rural development... [W]hat I had learned from them was that the most sustainable strategy for... development was to cherish and to use your... own resources and potential and not get dependent on external factors... [T[his is what I tried to do with my architecture, as well.”