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David Adjaye Quotes

born 1966 Ghana

David Adjaye (born 22 September 1966) is a Ghanaian-British architect. Born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to Ghanaian parents, he spent part of his childhood in several African and Middle Eastern countries before moving to Britain.

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I believe in architecture as a social force that actually makes good.

I'm just not always looking at the usual references.

I'm interested in finding new materials that can create new value systems, new appreciations.

I am an architect first of all, whose background is complex.

Architecture is losing its relevance to life. It's more about spectacle than buildings.

Making a building is such a big thing. They impact people for generations and act as massive transfers of information.

We need to look at what we think is valuable and not valuable and to question those judgments.

That is really the core of my work.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: David Adjaye (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.