David Adjaye

Sir David Adjaye , OBE (born December 22, 1966 in Dar es Salaam , Tanzania ) is a British architect .

Life

David Adjaye's parents are from Ghana . Grew up in Cairo and Saudi Arabia , he lives and works in London . He studied at Middlesex, London, South Bank University and for a Masters at the Royal College of Art .

He worked for Chassay Architects, Pentagram, David Chipperfield and the Portuguese Eduardo Souta de Moura.

In 1994 he founded Adjaye and Russell with William Russell. He designed exhibitions, cafes and shops. In 2000 he separated from Russell.

Today he has an office in Hoxton and others in Berlin and New York with over 30 employees. All designs are from Adjaye. In 2002 he built Idea Stores for the city libraries in the East End and in 2002 designed the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo as part of a master plan by Rem Koolhaas .

In 2008 he took part in the architectural competition to build a National Museum of African American History and Culture of the Smithsonian Institution , which was planned on the National Mall in Washington, DC. The location is one of the most prestigious in the USA; it was the last available space on the edge of the mall. Adjaye won the competition. Construction started in 2012. The museum was officially opened in 2016.

Adjaye was nominated for the 2006 Stirling Prize with the Whitechapel Idea Store. The Haus der Kunst in Munich showed a retrospective at the beginning of 2015 .

He currently teaches at the renowned Architectural Association in London. In 2013 David Adjaye was elected a member ( NA ) of the National Academy in New York and in 2016 a member of the American Philosophical Society . Since 2009 he has been an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters . In 2017 he was raised to the nobility as a Knight Bachelor .

For Abu Dhabi he is planning an interfaith dialogue center that will combine a mosque, a church and the first synagogue in the United Arab Emirates.

Important projects (selection)

Whitechapel Idea Store (London)

Moscow Management School, construction phase June 2010

Adjaye has already implemented 50 projects (as of 2015), including:

Elektra House, London, 1998-2000
Dirty House, Shoreditch (London), 2001-2002
Whitechapel Idea Store, London, 2001-2005
Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, 2002-2005
TB A21 Olafur Eliasson Pavilion, Venice, 2005
Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver , 2006–2008
Wakefield Market Hall, 2008
Moscow Management School, Skolkowo , 2010

Adjayes was the lead architect building the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC , USA.

Furniture

Washington Skin Nylon Chair for Knoll International and Washington Skeleton Chair for the company's 75th anniversary in 2013.

Exhibitions (selection)

2015: David Adjaye: shape, weight, material. , House of Art , Munich ; then David Adjaye: Form, booklet, material in the Art Institute of Chicago , Chicago , Illinois , USA. Catalog.
2013: ephemeropterae. , Atelier Augarten, Vienna

For further exhibitions see the web link "Exhibitions by David Adjaye"

literature

Peter Allison: David Adjaye Homes . Niggli 2005, ISBN 3-7212-0542-1 .
Peter Allison (ed.): David Adjaye - Making Public Buildings . Thames & Hudson 2006, ISBN 0-500-28648-5 .
London Scene: Adjaye & Co . archithese 5.2004 ( Memento of September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), ISBN 3-7212-0533-2 .
Exhibition catalog: David Adjaye: Form, Heft, Material , (en.) For the exhibition in Munich and Chicago 2015/2016. Yale University Press, 2015.
David Adjaye: David Adjaye Constructed Narratives, Lars Müller Publishers 2017, ISBN 978-3-03778-517-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Light as a material , review by Julian Ignatowitsch on Deutschlandfunk from February 4, 2015, accessed February 12, 2015.
^ Nationalacademy.org: Living Academicians. Adjaye, David (accessed March 15, 2015).
^ Honorary Members: David Adjaye. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 4, 2019 .
^ The London Gazette (Supplement) no. 61803. p. N2
↑ https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/religion-vereinigte-arabische-emirate-erkennen-kirchen-und.2849.de.html?drn:news_id=1054814 .
↑ Laura Weissmüller: The language of building. The architect David Adjaye knows exactly who he is building for each of his projects. That is why none of his buildings are like the other. A Munich exhibition is now celebrating his work. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , No. 25, January 31/1. February 2015, ISSN 0174-4917 , p. 16.
^ Announcement on the exhibition , accessed on February 1, 2015.
↑ Thought as a provocation, ended in gentrification in FAZ of March 25, 2015, page 11.

personal data
SURNAME	Adjaye, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British architect
DATE OF BIRTH	December 22, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dar es Salaam , Tanzania

[1] Light as a material , review by Julian Ignatowitsch on Deutschlandfunk from February 4, 2015, accessed February 12, 2015.

[2] Nationalacademy.org: Living Academicians. Adjaye, David (accessed March 15, 2015).

[3] Honorary Members: David Adjaye. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 4, 2019 .

[4] The London Gazette (Supplement) no. 61803. p. N2

[5] ttps://www.deutschlandfunk.de/religion-vereinigte-arabische-emirate-erkennen-kirchen-und.2849.de.html?drn:news_id=1054814 .

[6] Laura Weissmüller: The language of building. The architect David Adjaye knows exactly who he is building for each of his projects. That is why none of his buildings are like the other. A Munich exhibition is now celebrating his work. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , No. 25, January 31/1. February 2015, ISSN 0174-4917 , p. 16.

[7] Announcement on the exhibition , accessed on February 1, 2015.

[8] Thought as a provocation, ended in gentrification in FAZ of March 25, 2015, page 11.