Sir David Frank Adjaye (born 22 September 1966) is a Ghanaian-British

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. He is known for having designed many notable buildings around the world, including the

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in Washington, D.C. Adjaye was knighted in the

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for services to

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. He is the recipient of the 2021

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, making him the first African recipient and one of the youngest recipients. He was made a member of the

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in 2022.

Early life and education

Adjaye was born in

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. The son of a

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ian diplomat, he lived in Tanzania,

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and

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before moving to Britain at the age of nine. Upon graduating with a BA in Architecture from

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in 1990, he was nominated for the RIBA President's Medals, and won the RIBA Bronze Medal for the best design project produced at BA level worldwide. He graduated with an MA in 1993 from the

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Career

In 1993, the same year of graduation, Adjaye won the RIBA Bronze Medal Award, a prize offered for RIBA Part 1 projects, normally won by students who have only completed a bachelor's degree. Previously a unit tutor at the

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, he was also a lecturer at the Royal College of Art. He was knighted in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to architecture, following an OBE in 2007. Adjaye is the recipient of the 2021 Royal Gold Medal. Given in recognition of a lifetime's work, the Royal Gold Medal is approved personally by Her Majesty the Queen and is given to a person or group of people who have had a significant influence 'either directly or indirectly on the advancement of architecture'.

Early projects

Early works include many residential projects such as

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's house in 1999, Dirty House and Glass House in 2002, and Lorna Simpson's studio-home in 2006. He then moved onto larger scale projects such as the Idea Store in Whitechapel, UK, and the

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in Oslo, Norway, in 2005. The studio's first solo exhibition, ''David Adjaye: Making Public Buildings'', was shown at the Whitechapel Gallery in London in January 2006, with

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publishing the catalogue of the same name. This followed their 2005 publication of Adjaye's first book, ''David Adjaye Houses''. Other prominent early works include the

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and the Stephen Lawrence Centre in 2007.

Major works

National Museum of African American History and Culture in February 2020

Adjaye was selected to design the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver which opened in 2007. The building, Adjaye's first museum commission, was designed to minimize boundaries between the exterior spaces of the city and the interior galleries of the museum. Hidden skylights fill the interior spaces with natural light, and large windows look out on the city streets. The building has five galleries as well as dedicated education spaces, a shop, library and rooftop café. Adjaye won a competition to design the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo which was completed in 2010. Rejecting the traditional campus-style, the building is designed as one form to encourage student interaction. Adjaye designed two new neighbourhood libraries in Washington, D.C.: the

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and the Bellevue / William O. Lockridge Library which opened in 2012. The award-winning libraries are celebrated for being community beacons. In 2015, the Aishti Foundation, a mixed art gallery and retail space, opened in Beirut, Lebanon. The gallery space is over 40,000 square feet. Adjaye's design marries art viewing with shopping, two seemingly conflicting experiences. On 15 April 2009, Adjaye was selected lead architect for the team of architects, which includes the Freelon Group, Davis Brody Bond and SmithGroup, to design the new $540 million

, a

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museum, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. His design features a crown motif from

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sculpture. The museum opened in the fall of 2016 and was named "the cultural event of the year" by ''

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''. It was also the subject of a profile on the

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programme '' The Art of Architecture'' in 2019. Furniture that Adjaye designed for the museum is manufactured and sold by Knoll. In 2007, artist Linda Pace reached out to Adjaye to design a contemporary art centre for her art collection shortly before she died from breast cancer that year
Ruby City
located in

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, opened in 2019. In 2018, 1199SEIU President George Gresham reached out to Adjaye, who later accepted the commission to design the new 16,500-square-foot member space. The designed featured hundreds of photos gathered from the union's vast photo archive and placed on ceramic tiles produced by Cerámica Suro in Guadalajara, Mexico. The 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East is located in New York, New York and was completed in 2020. The designed was named Architect's Newspaper Best of Design for Interior Workplace in 2020. In 2017, Adjaye in conjunction with HuntonBrady Architects, revealed the design of the Winter Park Library and Events Center in

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. The library officially opened to the public on December 13, 2021. In 2022, it was the Jury Winner in the Library Category for the Architizer A+ Awards. Winter park library and events center

Other commissions

Alongside his international commissions, Adjaye's work spans exhibitions, private homes and furniture. He built homes for the designer

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, artist Jake Chapman, photographer

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, actor

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, and artists

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. For artist

, he designed a new studio and a beach house in

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, Trinidad. Adjaye is also known for his collaborations with contemporary artists on installations and exhibitions. He worked with Ofili to create an environment for '' The Upper Room'', which was later acquired by

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and caused a nationwide media debate. Adjaye collaborated with artist

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to create a light installation, ''Your black horizon'', at the 2005

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. He has also worked on the art project '' Sankalpa'' with director

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.Milmo, Cahal (24 July 2009)
"David Adjaye: Downfall of the showman"
''

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''. In May 2019, the Ghana Freedom Pavilion - designed by David - was inaugurated at the 58th Venice Art Biennale. He also designed the 56th Venice Art Biennale with the late curator Okwui Enwezor; the River Reading Room for the Gwangju Biennale; and the Sclera Pavilion for the London Design Festival. Adjaye co-authored two seasons of BBC's '' Dreamspaces'' television series and hosts a BBC radio programme. In June 2005, he presented the documentary ''Building Africa: Architecture of a Continent''. In 2008, he participated in

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7 and the

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. ''Making Place: The Architecture of David Adjaye'' was on display at the

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from September 2015 to January 2016. In November 2020, Adjaye published his early portfolio in his book titled ''Adjaye'' ''Works 1995–2007: Houses, Pavilions, Installations, Buildings'' with Peter Allison and Thames & Hudson. In September 2022, Adjaye published his continued portfolio in his latest book titled ''Adjaye Works 2007 - 2015: Houses, Pavilions, Installations, Buildings'' with Peter Allison and Thames & Hudson.

Recent work

Most recently, in 2021, David Adjaye revealed his design for the District Hospitals project across Ghana, Accra and The Africa Institute in Sharjah, UAE. Earlier this year, th
Cherry Groce Memorial Pavilion
was completed. Commissioned by the Cherry Groce Foundation, the memorial is in honour of Cherry Groce, who was shot in her home by the Metropolitan Police in front of her children on September 28, 1985. His other recent works include interiors for the SEIU 1199 Healthcare Workers' East in New York City,

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in Los Angeles, California (2020), Mole House in London, UK (2019), Ruby City in San Antonio, Texas (2019), McCarter Switching Station in Newark, New Jersey (2018), Sugar Hill Mixed-Use Development in Harlem, New York (2015), Alara Concept Store in Lagos, Nigeria (2015),

Aïshti Aïshti is a Lebanese luxury department chain store which sells fashion and clothing. In 2015, Aïshti opened the Aïshti Foundation in Beirut. The building was designed by architect David Adjaye "with a facade of red ceramic tiles, combining a h ...

Foundation in Beirut, Lebanon (2015). In 2015, Adjaye was commissioned to design a new home for the

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. In March 2018, Adjaye Associates' designs for the National Cathedral of Ghana were unveiled by Ghanaian president

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. In September 2020, Adjaye unveiled his designs for the

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. That same year, he also unveiled his designs for the

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Presidential Library as well as The Martyrs Memorial in

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. In November 2020, Adjaye revealed his vision for the Edo Museum of West African Art (EMOWAA) which will be built in

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. Adjaye Associates' building will house historic art and artefacts as well as incorporate galleries dedicated to contemporary arts. His design for the Abrahamic Family House on

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, UAE, is in the final stages of construction and is set to open in 2023. It is inspired by the ''

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'' and has a

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, and

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, celebrating the three major

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. It will also include a cultural center which promotes the values of mutual respect and peaceful coexistence. In September 2022
The W. E. B. Du Bois Museum Foundation
unveiled the plans and renderings for the new W. E. B. Du Bois Museum Complex in Accra, Ghana, designed by Adjaye. In October 2022,

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Board of Trustees approved construction of the new Civic Engagement Quad Core Project designed by Adjaye, slated to open in Fall 2024.

Firm operations

Adjaye established his practice in 2000 as Adjaye Associates. The firm now operates globally with offices in Accra, London, and New York and has completed projects in Europe, North America, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa.

Academic appointments

Adjaye was the first Louis Kahn visiting professor at the

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, and was the Kenzo Tange Professor in Architecture at

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. In addition, he is a RIBA Chartered Member, an AIA Honorary Fellow, a Foreign Honorary Member of the

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, and a Senior Fellow of the

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. He is a member of the Advisory Council of the Barcelona Institute of Architecture and also serves as member of the Advisory Boards of the Barcelona Institute of Architecture and the LSE Cities Programme.

Personal life

In 2014, Adjaye married Ashley Shaw-Scott.

was his best man. Adjaye has also worked on numerous collaborative projects with his brother Peter Adjaye, a musician. In 2018, along with

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and

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, Adjaye curated the third (RED) auction in Miami to support the Global Fund's work against

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, raising a total $10.5 million including matching funds by the

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Awards and honours

In 2006, Adjaye was shortlisted for the

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for the Whitechapel Idea Store, built on the remains of a 1960s mall. He was appointed

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(OBE) in 2007 for services to British architecture. In 2016 he received the

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's McDermott award, a $100,000 prize for excellence in the arts. That same year, he was elected to the

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. Adjaye was

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in the

for services to architecture. In 2018, Adjaye received the

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International Humanities Medal. In 2019, he was a member of the Prix Versailles World Judges Panel. In October 2020 Adjaye was announced as the RIBA Royal Gold Medal winner for 2021, awarded annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects on behalf of the British monarch, in recognition of an individual's or group's substantial contribution to international architecture. *RIBA Bronze Medal for Architecture Students - 1990 *

Senior Fellow * Design Miami/ Designer of the Year Award - 2011 * Powerlist: Britain's Most Influential Black Person - 2012 * Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT - 2016 * ''

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'' magazine's

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- 2017 * Ghana Legacy Honors Impact in Architecture Award * AJ100 Contribution to the Profession Award - 2018 * Thomas Jefferson Memorial Award - 2018 * Louis I. Khan Memorial Award - 2018 * Isamu Noguchi Award from the

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. - 2020 * RIBA Royal Gold Medal - 2021 * Crystal Award - 2021 *Charlotte Perriand Award - 2022 *TIME100 Impact Award - 2022 *

- 2022.

References

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External links

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Photo Gallery: David Adjaye
* Alexandra Lange
"Don't Call David Adjaye a Starchitect"
(interview), ''

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'', 15 July 2007
Icon interview (2005)

BBC Radio 3 interview

Whitechapel exhibition (2006)

Whitechapel exhibition review
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'', London, 24 July 2005 as "Chamber of secrets". * Tom Dyckhoff
"Behind The Facade"
''The Guardian'', 8 February 2003.
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