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DAVID ADJAYE presented by SPACE.CITY

David Adjaye is director of Adjaye Associates, founded in 2000. With offices in the UK, US, Germany and Ghana, the global practice has won numerous prestigious commissions, including the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

David Adjaye's works vary from residential to civic and include collaborations with artists. Celebrated for his innovative use of color and material, Adjaye's rigorous investigations into history and culture continue to challenge formulaic interpretations of place.

Adjaye has held professorships at the universities of Pennsylvania, Yale and Princeton and is currently the John C. Portman Design Critic in Architecture at Harvard. He has received numerous awards including the Order of the British Empire, Design Miami/ Year of the Artist title and the Wall Street Journal Innovator Award.

Completed works include: the Alara Concept Store in Lagos, Nigeria (2015); Marian Goodman Gallery, London (2014); Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO in Moscow (2010); The Nobel Peace Centre in Oslo (2005); The Bernie Grant Arts Centre in London (2007); Rivington Place in London (2007); and the Idea Stores on Chrisp Street (2004) and Whitechapel (2005) two pioneering new libraries in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The former was nominated for the Stirling Prize in 2006, received a RIBA Building Award in 2005 and has been exhibited at the VIII Venice Biennale of Architecture (2002 and 2005) and the Sao Paulo Biennial (2003).