“We all learned a lot about architecture and construction, but at least as important is the fact that the players always worked together. We came from different countries on two different continents. We spoke Italian, Polish, Chinanteca, Spanish and German. Apart from the architecture and our will, there was a common language in the yard. We not only built a house, we achieved something of at least equal value: we built friendships. We shot down national barriers, ethnic, cultural, linguistic and personal, too. Architecture is never the work of just one.”