The thing about architecture is that it's an art [you] simply learn more by doing more. It's one of those things that is really not an art about thinking, but doing. So in a way, what it has done is greatly intensify the way that I build.
If you just live in New York and you only know New York, you know a certain kind of condition of formality and informality. By being able to go to an… - David Adjaye
If you just live in New York and you only know New York, you know a certain kind of condition of formality and informality. By being able to go to an…
- David Adjaye
The houses [my first project in London] were reactions to the condition of the city and my frustrations with the norms that were being played out. In… - David Adjaye
The houses [my first project in London] were reactions to the condition of the city and my frustrations with the norms that were being played out. In…
What I resist is techniques. I find techniques very problematic. So when critics talk about my work in those terms, I find that they miss the conditi… - David Adjaye
What I resist is techniques. I find techniques very problematic. So when critics talk about my work in those terms, I find that they miss the conditi…
Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings. - David Adjaye
Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings.
Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is … - David Adjaye
Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is …
Buildings for me represent opportunities of agency, transformation, and storytelling. They are not just artifacts. There is this big tradition of bui… - David Adjaye
Buildings for me represent opportunities of agency, transformation, and storytelling. They are not just artifacts. There is this big tradition of bui…
I got into architecture because I was searching for a way to produce in the world. I went to art school and thought I would do it through art, but I … - David Adjaye
I got into architecture because I was searching for a way to produce in the world. I went to art school and thought I would do it through art, but I …
In a way, going to Africa allowed me to see possibilities that sometimes seem impossible in certain conditions. It also allowed me to see opportuniti… - David Adjaye
In a way, going to Africa allowed me to see possibilities that sometimes seem impossible in certain conditions. It also allowed me to see opportuniti…
In some conditions, the architecture of textile is more relevant than in other conditions or the opacity of the material form. Pattern in the world o… - David Adjaye
In some conditions, the architecture of textile is more relevant than in other conditions or the opacity of the material form. Pattern in the world o…
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