"Falling backward" into progress -- that is how lead architect Siamak Hariri sums up the process experienced over the past four years by the team designing the Baha'i House of Worship to be built in Santiago, Chile.

"We were traversing uncharted waters. We sometimes did not know how problems would be solved, but we are just so confident that they will be," he said on June 16 at a fundraising event for the Temple in Chile at the Baha'i House of Worship in Wilmette.