David Aradeon

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David Aradeon (born November 7, 1933 in Lagos ) is a Nigerian architect , urban planner and curator .

Life

1959 Aradeon graduated from Architecture at Columbia University in New York City . After graduating in 1966, he worked for three different architecture firms in New York City and then returned to Nigeria. In 1968 he received a three-year Ford grant to study settlement in West and North Africa. He became a lecturer in architecture at the University of Lagos , where he was appointed professor in 1979. He founded the Sankore Institute for African Environment and Development in Lagos, which he still heads today. He co-founded the non-profit organization Build with Earth for the promotion of building with earth .

In 1977 he curated the African Architectural Technology Exhibition for the Festival of African Cultures in Lagos. Together with Akinbode Akinbiyi , he was curator of the exhibition “City Views Lagos”, which was shown in 2004/2005 in the ifa galleries in Stuttgart and Berlin . In 2007 his work Movement of Forms, Antecedents of Afro-Brazilian Spaces was shown at documenta 12 in Kassel .

Aradeon is licensed as an architect in Nigeria and, in addition to his university work, has been a founding partner of the architecture firm Studio and Associates since 1975 . Among other things, he designed the entire campus of Lagos State University (1988), the exhibition rooms and offices of the National Council of Arts and Culture in Iganmu, Lagos, the auditorium of the University of Port-Harcourt and the National Cultural Complex in Abuja (2003). Aradeon lives and works in Lagos.

Publications (selection)

  • Architecture: the search for identity and continuity . Inaugural lecture at the University of Lagos given on February 11, 1998. University of Lagos Press, Lagos (Nigeria) 1998. ISBN 978-017-063-4
  • Together with Siyanbola Tomori and Ajato Gandonu: Medium and small size settlement in development strategy, Porto Novo region, Nigeria . In: Towards alternative settlement strategies: the role of small and intermediate centers in the development process . Heritage Publishers, New York 1980.
  • Festac '77: African architectural technology exhibition . 2nd World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture. The Secretariat, Lagos (Nigeria) 1977.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CITY VIEWS Lagos . ifa-Galerie Berlin (August 27 - October 17, 2004) and ifa-Galerie Stuttgart (November 26, 2004 - January 9, 2005). Curated by Akinbode Akinbiyi and David Aradeon. Catalog published by the Institute for Foreign Relations / Federal Center for Political Education, Berlin 2004. Online ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Retrieved October 20, 2008.) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ifa.de
  2. ^ Documenta 12 , Kassel. June 16 - September 23, 2007. About the works by David Aradeon shown on the official documenta blog: Online ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed October 20, 2008) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.documenta12blog.de
  3. ^ National Council of Arts and Culture , Nigeria (Retrieved October 20, 2008.)
personal data
SURNAME Aradeon, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerian architect, urban planner and curator
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Lagos