David Adjaye Quotes

• Los edificios son estructuras profundamente emotivas que forman nuestra psique. La gente cree que son sólo cosas por las que maniobra, pero la constitución de una persona está influida por la naturaleza de los espacios.

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  Thinking, Makeup, Space

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• For me, architecture is a social act.

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  Architecture, Social

  "A Sense of Place" by Calvin Tomkins, www.newyorker.com. September 23, 2013.

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• I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people.

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  People, Design, Architecture

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• Buildings for me represent opportunities of agency, transformation, and storytelling. They are not just artifacts. There is this big tradition of buildings-as-artifacts - constructed artifacts - but for me they are these incredible sites of negotiation.

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  Opportunity, Agency, Transformation

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

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  Important, Building, Surroundings

  "A Sense of Place". Interview with Calvin Tomkins, www.newyorker.com. September 23, 2013.

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• Me metí en la arquitectura porque buscaba una forma de producir en el mundo. Fui a la escuela de arte y pensé que lo haría a través del arte, pero muy pronto me di cuenta de que me interesaban las ramificaciones sociales de la creación de formas. Así que los edificios se convirtieron en el vehículo y cumplieron esa función. Eso me satisfacía cuando los producía. Decidí que esto era lo que quería hacer el resto de mi vida.

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  Art, School, World

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

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  Art, Thinking, Done

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A lo que me resisto es a las técnicas. Las técnicas me parecen muy problemáticas. Por eso, cuando los críticos hablan de mi obra en esos términos, me parece que no entienden la condición. Me siento cómodo con la noción de patrón y ornamento como sistema de organización, [pero] para mí actúa como un textil. No se trata de patrones, sino de la noción de arquitectura a través de la lente textil, en lugar de la arquitectura a través de la lente del ladrillo y el cemento.

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  Organization, Bricks And Mortar, Missing

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In a way, going to Africa allowed me to see possibilities that sometimes seem impossible in certain conditions. It also allowed me to see opportunities for material strategies. I hate it when people think I went and got something [from Africa] and brought it here. It's more about how it affects the way in which I work and affects [my] creativity.

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  Hate, Creativity, Thinking

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Los primeros diez años me limitaba a construir para entender lo que hacía y no confiaba en mi intuición para producir. Luego, en los últimos cinco años, he reflexionado realmente sobre lo que estoy produciendo y lo que está haciendo.

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  Years, Intuition, Firsts

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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 of scarce materiality and a hybridity becomes a way of creating a new authenticity. Sometimes there is a certain kind of nobility of a group of materials literally of the earth, which had a certain nobility of presence, but is very different from the materials we have now.

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  Creating, Textiles, World

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• 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 another context and to be able to use that as a counter foil to the context you know, you are about to see a wider range.

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  New York, Able, Use

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Africa is an extraordinary opportunity at the moment

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  Opportunity, Moments, Extraordinary

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• El museo de Washington es en realidad un museo narrativo: la naturaleza de un pueblo y cómo se representa esa historia. En cambio, el Studio Museum es un museo de arte contemporáneo que trata sobre la diáspora y un grupo concreto de artistas contemporáneos ignorados por la corriente dominante. El Studio Museum lo ha defendido e introducido en la corriente dominante. Son como hermanos, pero diferentes.

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  Brother, Art, Museums

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In a way, I feel I have enough tools and knowledge now that when I build it has a very specific agency that's very conscious. It's no longer speculative; it's really constructed. I'm very interested in how that consciousness, about how I am producing, is working within different conditions. It's like growing up.

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  Growing Up, Agency, Way

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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 a way they were slightly subconscious but reactions to that condition and a way to posit new possibilities within certain pervasive norms.

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  Frustration, Cities, House

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