Lesley Lokko Quotes
born 1964 Ghana
Lesley Naa Norle Lokko OBE (1964 in Dundee, Scotland) is a Ghanaian-Scottish architect, academic, and novelist.
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Succession is something you make, by constructing opportunities.
Architects have the power to change the culture of how we build and how we think about resources.
Change is the one thing that everybody hollers for and longs for, but when it actually arrives, most people don't want it. It's a complex thing.
All futures are uncertain. We do our best to anticipate the future.
There’s something about the training of an architect that’s particularly suited to our time: it’s about bringing disparate pieces of information together in a framework. Architecture is about more than building buildings.
The glow of delicioous tension coudn't be faked, not at any price. So when you leave, that's when you realise you've been living in a lie.
The dominant voice has historically been a singular, exclusive voice, whose reach and power ignores huge swathes of humanity — financially, creatively, conceptually — as though we have been listening and speaking in one tongue only.
No job is worth one’s life.
Africa's unique context, which is both richly challenging and richly creative, means it's a powerful place from which to examine the issues that will dominate the next century – climate change, societal change, demographic change, new forms of governance, explosive urbanity.
You have to find yourself. When you meet him again, you have to know who you are. He's finding out who he is.
I’ve always thought of ‘race’ as a powerfully creative category of exploration and expression. I was fed up trying to find a way to talk about identity, race and Africa in architecture that wasn’t only about poverty and ‘informality,’ a word I loathe.
She would love it. Just as he loved her. He paused for a second, his fingers touching the door handle. He was in love. The realisation came to him quite suddenly.
When you are African, you speak to a world that has an existing view of who and what you are. You walk with this kind of label. So for me, the Biennale was an opportunity to both talk about the label, to confront it in a way, but to also show underneath how similar we are.
It wasn't sealed - she opened the flap. Inside was a cheque for a thousand dollars. Made out to her. From Daniel. It was a colossal slap in the face.