Cameron Sinclair Quotes

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• Through training, practice, and a deep sense of optimism, architects see opportunities where others only see a void. This has been the driving principle behind…
• Forget your environmental footprint. Think about your ethical footprint. What good is it to build a zero-carbon, energy efficient complex, when the labor producing this…
• When your focus is social change and not financial change why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared. If…
• When you build a beautiful building, people love it. And the most sustainable building in the world is the one that’s loved.
• If you focus on design, you can call yourself a designer. If you focus on the implementation of your design, you can call yourself an…
• When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
• A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create…
• An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.
• Design is about creating spaces for people to enjoy and of course, creating moments where you elevate the spirit, but 'design for good' is figuring…
• The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.
• The fact that the president (Michelle Bachelet) was out giving minute-to-minute reports a few hours after the quake in the middle of the night gives…
• Many feel that sitting at a screen sweating over the design of handrail details for the next cute downtown boutique hotel just doesn't make sense…
• It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
• I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
• Treat the world like a failed state; then you can understand the players needed to fix it.

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