His Highness the Aga\u00a0Khan elaborated on the importance of this pursuit: \u201cToday, with the climate more volatile than ever, architects have a great responsibility, and an opportunity, to use their creativity to design the buildings that will buffer that volatility and protect us all \u2013 and especially the most vulnerable \u2013 from climatic risk,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis quality \u2013 flexibility in the face of the unexpected \u2013 was at the heart of the jury\u2019s concerns in this cycle of the award.\u201d <\/p>\n
As well as environmental justice, the built environment is well placed to help solve issues of social justice, His Highness explained in his address: \u201cIt is not an exaggeration to say that affordability of our housing, ease of access to green space, education, health and cultural heritage all hinge on the creativity of our architects and the wisdom of our civic planners.\u201d <\/p>\n
Buildings, he added, have the power to raise living standards, inspire reverence and solve problems for generations to come. \u201cGreat architecture,\u201d he went on to say, \u201chas the power to answer directly to the most acute development challenges, and to create the inclusive, safe, dignified world that we want for everyone.\u201d Read His Highness the Aga\u00a0Khan\u2019s speech.<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"His Highness the Aga\u00a0Khan elaborated on the importance of this pursuit: \u201cToday, with the climate more volatile than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-140100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}