Cameron Sinclair famous quotes

When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
-- Cameron Sinclair

#Believe #Survival #Matter

Many feel that sitting at a screen sweating over the design of handrail details for the next cute downtown boutique hotel just doesn't make sense when more than 150,000 people have lost their lives, more than five million people have been made homeless and whole towns have been swept away.
-- Cameron Sinclair

#Cute #People #Design

It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
-- Cameron Sinclair

#Survival #World #Buzz

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.
-- Cameron Sinclair

#Focus #Innovation #Want

Through training, practice, and a deep sense of optimism, architects see opportunities where others only see a void. This has been the driving principle behind Architecture for Humanity since our founding.
-- Cameron Sinclair

#Opportunity #Practice #Optimism

Treat the world like a failed state; then you can understand the players needed to fix it.
-- Cameron Sinclair

#Player #World #States

I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
-- Cameron Sinclair

#Numbers #Community #Hats

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.
-- Cameron Sinclair

#Jobs #Hate #Careers

Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact.
-- Cameron Sinclair

#Impact #Ego #Inches

The fact that the president (Michelle Bachelet) was out giving minute-to-minute reports a few hours after the quake in the middle of the night gives you an indication of their disaster response,
-- Cameron Sinclair

#Night #Giving #President

The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.
-- Cameron Sinclair

#Architecture #Internet #Incredibles

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.
-- Cameron Sinclair

#Jobs #Creating #Space

An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.
-- Cameron Sinclair

#Optimistic #Artist #Realist

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.
-- Cameron Sinclair

#Beautiful #Dream #Optimistic

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.
-- Cameron Sinclair

#Focus #Design #Designer

When you build a beautiful building, people love it. And the most sustainable building in the world is the one that’s loved.
-- Cameron Sinclair

#Beautiful #People #World

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. 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.
-- Cameron Sinclair

#Impact #Ideas #Focus

Forget your environmental footprint. Think about your ethical footprint. What good is it to build a zero-carbon, energy efficient complex, when the labor producing this architectural gem is unethical at best?
-- Cameron Sinclair

#Zero #Motivation #Inspiration

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; youll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.
-- Cameron Sinclair

#Crush #Technology #Broken