Prince Charles wins architecture prize: speech

Prince Charles wins architecture prize: speech; USA: Washington DC: National Building Museum: INT Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, onto stage to receive architecture prize and speech SOT - Jokes about stage looking like it had been set up for his execution/ deeply grateful for this honour in adding my name to such a distinguished list of recipients of this award - Talks about coming back to this remarkable building - I have asked my foundation to put this gift to use in support of its work in helping to rebuild some of the Mississipi communities damaged by Hurricane Katrina/ my wife and I utterly horrified to see the terrible scenes of destruction wrought by the hurricane across New Orleans/ tomorrow we will have opportunity to meet some of the brave and resilient people trying to rebuild their lives and to pay tribute to astonishing efforts of the emergency workers - Hope my foundation can play a small part in the work that is under way to rebuild the reconstruction -Talks about Mississipi renewal forum/ Talks about work done by his foundation - Thanks for award/ I seem to be a dangerous commodity in certain circles and receiving such awards is a relatively novel experience - Importance of retaining our connection with the natural world, value of traditional urbanism and the abiding significance of the sacred - My own garden surrounding Highgrove has long been a labour of love and an attempt to work in harmony with nature - There has never been a greater need in light of the terrible forces of chaos we are helping to unleash thru becoming further and further apart from nature, need to move towards architecture and planning which similarly reconnects the human and natural worlds with one another - We have over industrialised the whole business of food production, have over-industrialised our whole approach to the built environment, we have removed the soul and thus lost the balance of things that must lie at the heart of a truly human civilisation -...