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David Adjaye Architect : Architecture Information

Buildings + Designs by Adjaye/Associates, London, England, UK

18 Apr 2012 David Adjaye - Book David Adjaye - Authoring: Re-placing Art and Architecture Edited by Marc McQuade With contributions by David Adjaye, Stan Allen, Alex Coles, Teresita Fernández, Dave Hickey, Sanford Kwinter, Jorge Pardo, and Matthew Ritchie Authoring: Re-placing Art and Architecture challenges traditional assumptions about the relationship between art and architecture. From 2008 through 2010, David Adjaye and Marc McQuade, taught three studios at the Princeton School of Architecture. Each studio focused on a collaboration with three distinguished artists-Matthew Ritchie, Teresita Fernández, and Jorge Pardo-on interventions in three vastly different sites: the state of New Jersey, the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, and the city of Mérida in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. Through an exploratory process of questioning, developing, and testing, each architect and artist reexamines the expectations traditionally associated with the conventions of architectural design and representation. Authoring: Re-placing Art and Architecture presents recent projects from David Adjaye, Matthew Ritchie, Teresita Fernández, and Jorge Pardo, along with interviews, essays, and archival material that explore the shared space of art and architecture. Storefront for Art and Architecture Adjaye/Associates - Latest Building National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington DC, USA Freelon Adjaye Bond Smith Group picture courtesy Freelon Adjaye Bond Smith Group National Museum of African American History and Culture The National Museum for African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) broke ground on 22 Feb 2012. President Obama delivered remarks at an official ceremony celebrating this milestone for the Smithsonian Institution’s new museum on Washington’s National Mall. Adjaye/Associates - Studio News Adjaye Associates Relocates Adjaye Associates’ London Headquarters moves from N1 to NW1 After more than a decade in Penn Street Hackney, Adjaye Associates’ London studio has moved into the recently redeveloped Art Deco Edison House on Old Marlebone Road. Occupying the entire ground floor, the office is a radical new space planned and designed by the practice. Strengthening Adjaye Associates’ London base, the move celebrates the studio’s longstanding enthusiasm for working locally – both in London and across the UK. Edison House is a freshly completed development with striking office space that will champion the London headquarters, while consolidating the practice’s international presence, with its partner offices in Berlin and New York. David Adjaye said: “I have a real passion for working in my home town – London is the city which has established my career and given me extraordinary opportunities. To set up my office in one of our own developments is extremely exciting. It is a moment which heralds renewed enthusiasm for building here and we will seek to strengthen our local base with ever more projects. It is also gratifying to be able to provide my excellent team with a distinctive, exciting environment in which to work.” Adjaye Associates, Edison House, 223-231 Old Marylebone Road, London NW1 5TH David Adjaye : 'Urban Africa' photograph : David Adjaye David Adjaye Exhibition London at the Design Museum - Photos by David Adjaye/Associates - Major Buildings Kvadrat London Showroom, London, UK 2009 Design: David Adjaye and Peter Saville photo from Adjaye / Associates Kvadrat London Showroom Idea Store Chrisp St, Langdon Park, Poplar, east London, UK photo © Nick Weall Idea Store Chrisp St Idea Store Whitechapel, east London, UK photo © Nick Weall Idea Store Whitechapel Rivington Place, London, UK 2007 photo © Nick Weall Rivington Place Buildings by Adjaye/Associates Projects listed alphabetically: Bernie Grant Centre, Tottenham, east London 2007 Dirty House, Shoreditch, east London, UK 2001-02 Elektra House, Whitechapel, east London, UK 1998-2000 Idea Store, Chrisp Street, Poplar, east London, UK 2001-04 Idea Store Whitechapel, Whitechapel, east London, UK 2001-05 inVIA - Institute of International Visual Arts, London 2007 Kvadrat London Showroom, London, UK 2009 Manchester gallery project, northern England 2007- David Adjaye with Maurice Shapero + Stephenson Bell £55m: Apartments, gallery, retail, market, bus station Museum of Contemporary Arts, Denver, USA 2007 Nobel Peace Center - Exhibition Centre, Oslo, Norway 2002-05 Rivington Place, Rivington Street, east London 2007 Stephen Lawrence Centre, Deptford, southeast London 2007 T-B A21 Olafur Eliasson Pavilion - Art Installation, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy 2005 Timber-frame prefabricated house, de Beauvoir Town, Hackney, east London 2007 More projects by David Adjaye online soon Adjaye/Associates - Stirling Prize nominated 2006 for Idea Store Client: London Borough of Tower Hamlets

David Adjaye - Practice Information

Architect studio based in London, UK

David Adjaye

Born 1966 : Dar-Es-Salam, Tanzania

Education
Royal College of Art - MA Arch 1993

David Adjaye reformed his studio in 2000 as Adjaye/Associates

Teaching Positions
Architectural Association, London : unit tutor

Previously
Royal College of Art, London : lecturer

Awards
RIBA First Prize Bronze Medal : 1993

David has become well-known for his intriguing houses which are innovative especially in materials and colour, and for The Idea Store building typology which is both a library and education centre.

David Adjaye - Further Information

David Adjaye is founder and Principal Architect of Adjaye Associates. Established in June 2000, the firm has received worldwide attention, with work ranging in scale from private houses, cafes and bars, exhibitions and temporary pavilions to major arts centres, civic buildings and masterplans in Europe, North America, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. The practice is currently engaged on the prestigious commission to design the Smithsonian Institution's ambitious National Museum of African American History and Culture on a prominent site on the National Mall in Washington D.C. Adjaye's belief in working together with artists and other cultural thinkers has led to a number of notable collaborations on both building projects as well as exhibitions. The practice established its early reputation with a series of private houses where the artist was client, and this dialogue continues with recent public buildings, exhibitions and research projects, including Chris Offili's "The Upper Room" exhibited (1999-2002 and 2010), which is now in the permanent collection of Tate Britain. David Adjaye's photographic survey of 52 cities across the continent of Africa, "Urban Africa", exhibited at the Design Museum London (2010), has shifted the understanding of Africa's metropolitan centres while offering a global resonance and consolidating the African heritage that informs the practice's work. He was awarded the OBE for services to architecture in 2007 and received the Design Miami/ Year of the Artist title in 2011.

David Adjaye - Further Projects

Lunch, Exmouth Market, Clerkenwell, London EC1, UK
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Adjaye Russell

Birmingham Library - architecture competition, England
2006
Shortlist: Adjaye Associates, Glen Howells and make
Birmingham Library

London Houses

David Adjaye - RIBA Awards 2006, East London: Idea Store, Whitechapel

Herzog de Meuron

SANAA Architects

Alvaro Siza

Peter Zumthor Architects

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