From the incisive to the intemperate, here are Dezeen's top 10 quotes of 2023, taken from the interviews and opinion pieces we have published this year.
Dezeen has published more than 100 interviews and over 50 opinion pieces this year, featuring some of the best-known voices in architecture and design.
Our interviewees and writers have come out with an extensive catalogue of memorable lines, including candid admissions, eloquent attacks on architecture and eyebrow-raising proclamations.
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Read on for Dezeen's top 10 quotes of 2023:

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"I have a confession to make: I have no idea what placemaking is" ? Reinier de Graaf OMA partner and frequent Dezeen contributor Reinier de Graaf took aim at the concept of placemaking in a memorable opinion piece in September.
"The more I hear the word, the less I understand it," he wrote, in a continuation of his ongoing attempt to deconstruct architectural jargon.
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"When I hear, 'we've got a volunteer architecture firm and they're doing this pro bono' ? chills at the back of the neck" ? Lucy Easthope
Dezeen interviewed emergency planner Lucy Easthope as part of our Designing for Disasters series.
"Almost all of the deaths that I see are a failure of design," she told us.
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