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… — 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 world of scarce materiality and a hybridity becomes a way of creating a new authenticity. Sometimes… — 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
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… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
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… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people. — 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 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…” quote by David Adjaye](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a0f/david-adjaye-31851_architecture_what-i-resist-is-techniques-i-find-techn_804486.jpg)
![“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)
