Cameron Sinclair Quotes

Who is the architect? I am the architect.

It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too.

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

When you're designing and inventing the way I did, every minute of your life is put - every neuron in your brain into trying to think about the little code and how you can maybe have one less line of code and a little bit more straightforward from the beginning to the answer. And you don't have time to think about companies and products and how would I build this. So Steve Jobs and I were a very necessary pair.

Everything starts with design.

Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.

I always had some kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

When you say 'design,' everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything.

Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.

I am an architect, first.

When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.

I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't.

I am always locked in my design studio.

If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.

So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself what would I like? What would I like to buy? Then I started to imagine and design it for myself a lot of the time.

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.

I am but an architectural composer.

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down on going to contracts classes.

Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work.

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.