My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.
It is quite interesting that whilst there are tremendous theories, in the 1960s when IT was born, everybody was supposedly going to their cottage in the countryside to work in a virtual way.
If you live in a squalid environment, then of course you are going to want to get out of it, you are probably going to want to get into the country, because that`s what it does.
If I remember rightly Holland for instance has something like 45, and it`s a much smaller country. In comparison we have very few and they are very badly financed.