ADJAYE - Works 2007-2015, houses, pavilions, installations, buildings

: Allison (P.) ed.

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300pp., 4to., b/w & colour illus., hardback, London, 2022

 

The second volume in the monographic series on British-Ghanaian architect Sir David Adjaye, winner of the 2021 RIBA royal gold medal. Follows on from Adjaye – Works: Houses, Pavilions, Installations, Buildings, 1995–2007 (2020).

Between 2007 and 2015 Adjaye worked on major projects around the world, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo and two projects connected with the post-Katrina reconstruction programme in New Orleans.

Foreword by David Adjaye. Includes the essay, "The Modern Made Flesh" by Ila Berman.

David Adjaye was born in 1966 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The son of a Ghanaian diplomat, he lived in Tanzania, Egypt, Yemen and Lebanon, before moving to Britain at the age of nine.

Peter Allison has collaborated with David Adjaye for over 20 years. He is the editor of Adjaye: African architecture; David Adjaye: Living spaces and Adjaye – Works: houses, pavilions, installations, buildings, 1995–2007