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

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

Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings.

- David Adjaye

Buildings for me represent opportunities of agency, transformation, and storytelling. They are not just artifacts. There is this big tradition of bui…

- 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…

- 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…

- David Adjaye

The first 10 years, I was just building just to understand what I was doing and I didn't trust my intuition to just produce. Then, in the last five y…

- David Adjaye

For me, architecture is a social act.

- 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 …

- David Adjaye