Cameron Sinclair
Cameron Sinclair
Cameron Sinclairis the founder and principal designer for Small Works, a social impact design and development company which focuses on post-conflict reconstruction and for purpose projects...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth16 November 1973
Cameron Sinclair quotes about
jobs hate careers
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.
numbers community hats
I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
impact ego inches
Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact.
cute people design
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.
school support important
Success will only happen with Afghans leading the charge, and it is far, far more important for Kabul to create and support a purpose-driven school of architecture than to invite a high profile designer to build.
night giving president
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,
opportunity practice optimism
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.
focus innovation want
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.
community empowering identity
After two decades of reconstruction work, I want to work on projects that lay at the intersection of cultural diplomacy and national identity - ones that empower local communities to define progress, not have it sanctioned by others.
jobs creating space
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.
believe survival matter
When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
change few impact pioneer round share turn
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.
create designers help structures trying
So this is really trying to get designers to think very differently about how you create structures to help people.
design focus architect
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.