Cameron Sinclair Quotes

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

The future of architecture is culture.

An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.

If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.

I’m a passionate architect... I do not work for money

I think architecture has to be a gift.

I love architecture.

Architecture is invention.

For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.

I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design.

Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.

It's important for people who criticise architects - whether what they build is or isn't to your taste - to appreciate how they devote themselves and put everything into bringing a building into existence.

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one."

Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.

Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me... the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights.

Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.

The content could be done anyplace, but the real invention is the architecture. The architecture is the only work that really defines a new way of doing things. I think this point is fundamental.

Being an architect is like playing piano, you learn to play to admire how well the other guys play piano.

I grew up in Romania studying art and architecture.

Architects love to rethink a project - that's what we do. If something is successful, like a house or a kettle, in this case, it's a great compliment when someone wants another one.

To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order by converting it into a disciplined work of art, is to make the mistake of attempting to substitute art for life. The results of such profound confusion between art and life are neither life nor art. They are taxidermy.

The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new technologies.

Designers are inherently optimistic people who try to make the world a better place