Cameron Sinclair quotes

When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change. (Cameron Sinclair)
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. View quote
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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 architect. View quote
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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 a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens. View quote
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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 out a program that not only creates better spaces, but creates jobs, creates new industry and really kind of raises the conversation about how we rebuild. View quote
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Some of the best work that's happening right now is from architects who have remained in their home countries and who have focused on a local or national identity and the idea of critical regionalism. View quote
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Treat the world like a failed state, then you can understand the players needed to fix it. View quote
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival. View quote
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When you build a beautiful building, people love it. And the most sustainable building in the world is the one that's loved. View quote
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The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry. View quote
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An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. (Cameron Sinclair)
I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats. View quote
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If you're a pioneer and you come up with something that can change the world and you turn round and say 'I'm not going to share this idea with anyone,' then you only impact the few and not the many. View quote
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A career is a job you love, right? That's what a career should be. If you're in a job that you hate, you should quit. That's the way I look at it. I'm in a job that I love, so I'm going to make it my career. View quote
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When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken. View quote
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Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact. View quote
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Cameron Sinclair

Cameron Sinclair - Image
Photo: inUse Consulting from Sweden, CC BY 2.0
Occupation: English Architect
Born: November 16, 1973
Quotes count: 16

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