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… — 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 Museum is really a contemporary art museum that happens to be about the diaspora and a particular body of contemporary artists ignored by the mainstream. The Studio Museum has championed that and brought into the mainstream.… — David Adjaye Copy Share
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 condition. I am comfortable with the notion of pattern and ornament as a system of organization, [but] for me it acts as a textile. So it's not about pattern, but the notion of architecture… — David Adjaye Copy Share
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
![“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.” quote by David Adjaye](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f91/david-adjaye-31851_being-played_the-houses-my-first-project-in-london-we_1036091.jpg)
![“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.” quote by David Adjaye](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/62a/david-adjaye-31851_architecture_the-thing-about-architecture-is-that-it_1730140.jpg)
![“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…” quote by David Adjaye](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9a6/david-adjaye-31851_certain_in-a-way-going-to-africa-allowed-me-to-s_2324863.jpg)
