David Adjaye
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David Adjaye is one of Britain?s leading contemporary architects, and particularly well known for his domestic projects. Adjaye combines the sensual and emotive with a conceptual approach to the fundamental elements of architecture. His influences range from African art and architecture to contemporary art and music leading to numerous collaborations with artists, including Olafur Eliasson and Chris Ofili.
Making Public Buildings focuses for the first time on Adjaye?s engagement with civic space and the built environment. It brings together a distinguished group of authors to reflect on Adjaye?s practice, significance and influences. Okwui Enwezor and Saskia Sassen discuss the increasing need for a politicized definition of public space, while Nikolaus Hirsch and Peter Allison consider Adjaye?s attention to materials. Two interviews with David Adjaye, one led by Peter Allison and the other by Kodwo Eshun, guide us through his approach to making public buildings within a global context. They are accompanied by drawings, documents and photographs relating to ten of Adjaye?s most important projects.
Making Public Buildings focuses for the first time on Adjaye?s engagement with civic space and the built environment. It brings together a distinguished group of authors to reflect on Adjaye?s practice, significance and influences. Okwui Enwezor and Saskia Sassen discuss the increasing need for a politicized definition of public space, while Nikolaus Hirsch and Peter Allison consider Adjaye?s attention to materials. Two interviews with David Adjaye, one led by Peter Allison and the other by Kodwo Eshun, guide us through his approach to making public buildings within a global context. They are accompanied by drawings, documents and photographs relating to ten of Adjaye?s most important projects.
Extent: 304 pp
Format: Hardback with half-height jacket
Illustrations: 305
Publication date: 2017-10-26
Size: 24.0 x 20.0 cm
ISBN: 9780500343258
Foreword: David Adjaye : Living Spaces • Pitch Black, New York, USA, 2003–2006 • Sunken House, London, UK, 2003–2007 • LN House, Denver, USA, 2005–2007 • Silverlight, London, UK, 2002–2009 • Seven, New York, USA, 2004–2010 • Asem Pa, Make It Right, New Orleans, USA, 2007–2011 • Nanjing House, Nanjing, China, 2004–2012 • Nkron, Ghana, 2008–2012 • Hill House, Trinidad, 2008–2014
About the Author
Iwona Blazwick has been Director of the Whitechapel Gallery in London since 2003.
Peter Allison is a London-based exhibition curator and teacher.
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