Skrevet af David Adjaye
David Adjaye is the most exciting and accomplished young architect to
emerge on the international scene in many years. The combination of
material inventiveness, creative clients and modest budgets has produced
a refined and comprehensive body of design work - and Adjaye is only 38
years old. He was born in Tanzania the son of a diplomat, and his
wide-ranging education, both cultural and formal, has allowed him to
respond deftly to wildly differing projects, from gritty urban contexts -
such as London's Whitechapel multimedia centre and an extension for New
York's New Museum - to elegant pastoral retreats in more natural
surroundings. The innovation in Adjaye's career is exemplified in his
residential works for a wide variety of clients and budgets. Perhaps his
best-known projects are the houses he has created in a range of
settings for such creatives as artist Chris Ofili and actor Ewan
McGregor. The winner of a competition to design a new building for the
Nobel Foundation and the architect of the British Pavilion at the Venice
Biennale, Adjaye is currently enjoying enormous worldwide attention in
both specialist and journalistic presses. This publication, his first
monograph and an object of beauty in its own right, is a timely
celebration of a young talent at the height - and yet at the beginning -
of his creative powers.
