In a way, I feel I have enough tools and knowledge now that when I build it has a very specific agency… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
The museum in D.C. is really a narrative museum - the nature of a people and how you represent that story. Whereas the Studio… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
What I resist is techniques. I find techniques very problematic. So when critics talk about my work in those terms, I find that they… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
The houses [my first project in London] were reactions to the condition of the city and my frustrations with the norms that were being… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings. — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
I got into architecture because I was searching for a way to produce in the world. I went to art school and thought I… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
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… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
If you just live in New York and you only know New York, you know a certain kind of condition of formality and informality.… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
In a way, going to Africa allowed me to see possibilities that sometimes seem impossible in certain conditions. It also allowed me to see… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
In some conditions, the architecture of textile is more relevant than in other conditions or the opacity of the material form. Pattern in the… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
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.… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
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