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Cameron Sinclair interview about humanitarian architecture

Cameron Sinclair: I’m the co-founder of Architecture for Humanity and I ran that for close to 14 years.
They’ve been snaked there, they’ve had a taste of humanitarian work and they would rather starve than work in an office.
“And I am never going to win the Pritzker Prize, I’m going to die happy knowing that.”
“I will never do a skyscraper in my life ever, I’m going to die happy knowing that,” said Sinclair.
Cameron Sinclair: It makes it hard to critique because I’m doing something similar.

Proponents of such major development projects see this as Turkey’s march toward becoming a fully developed and even more prosperous country, saying a resource-poor country can generate wealth through large-scale construction projects.
But critics are insistent that regulations are being violated or ignored, and the massive environmental damage these projects could cause will hurt the country even more in the long term.
This is not the case with this old centralist mindset that exists at the moment,” he told MEE.
“These people [the government] see these big construction projects as purely a source to make money for themselves and those close to them,” he added.
The construction of hundreds of hydroelectric power stations in the region is also a major point of contention.
Local media reports say that work is continuing at some sites despite a local court ordering a halt to construction activity.