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David Adjaye

(1966) Architect

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David Adjaye is an architect.

Quick Facts About David Adjaye

Born: September 22, 1966
Profession: Architect

About David Adjaye

[Wikidata] architect (born 1966)... | [Wikipedia] Sir David Frank Adjaye is a Ghanaian-British architect who has designed many notable buildings around the world, including the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Adjaye was knighted in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to architecture. He received the 20

Quotes by David Adjaye

The museum in D.C. is really a narrative museum - the nature of a people and how you represent that story. Whereas…

Art

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What I resist is techniques. I find techniques very problematic. So when critics talk about my work in those terms, I find…

Architecture

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The houses [my first project in London] were reactions to the condition of the city and my frustrations with the norms that…

Being played

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For me, architecture is a social act.

Architecture

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Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings.

Acknowledge

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I got into architecture because I was searching for a way to produce in the world. I went to art school and…

Architecture

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Africa is an extraordinary opportunity at the moment

Extraordinary

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The thing about architecture is that it's an art [you] simply learn more by doing more. It's one of those things that…

Architecture

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If you just live in New York and you only know New York, you know a certain kind of condition of formality…

Able

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In a way, going to Africa allowed me to see possibilities that sometimes seem impossible in certain conditions. It also allowed me…

Certain

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In some conditions, the architecture of textile is more relevant than in other conditions or the opacity of the material form. Pattern…

Architecture

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The first 10 years, I was just building just to understand what I was doing and I didn't trust my intuition to…

Building

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In a way, I feel I have enough tools and knowledge now that when I build it has a very specific agency…

Agency

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Buildings for me represent opportunities of agency, transformation, and storytelling. They are not just artifacts. There is this big tradition of buildings-as-artifacts…

Agency

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I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people.

Architecture

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Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a…

Architecture

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