David Adjaye Boeken

David Adjaye is one of the world's most exciting and accomplished architects, and has built many highly acclaimed houses and public buildings in the UK and USA. Over a ten-year period, the Tanzanian born, London-based architect has visited 53 major African cities and photographed thousands of buildings, sites and places that few of us will ever be able to visit. This 7-volume set documents Adjaye's tribute to African metropolitan architecture. The individual volumes present cities according to the terrain in which they are situated: the Maghreb, Desert, The Sahel, Savannah and Grassland, Mountain and Highveld, and Forest. Each city is shown in a concise urban history, fact file, maps and satellite imagery, along with Adjaye's personal travel notes and dozens of photographs of the city's civic, commercial and residential architecture. All six terrain volumes feature an introductory essay by Adjaye, and a separate volume is dedicated to essays by leading academics and commentators on Africa.

An artistic reflection on the impact of David Adjaye's architecture for the Idea Stores in London, featuring also a conversation with David Adjaye on London's new public neighbourhood libraries.

The African continent contains some of the world's most vibrant culture and creativity, and yet its buildings - vernacular, colonial or contemporary - have rarely engaged the interest of Western architects. This seven-volume work is suitable for all those interested in the burgeoning continent

Constructed Narratives brings together essays and several recently completed buildings by David Adjaye, in the United States and elsewhere. In the essays, Adjaye shows how his approach to the design of temporary pavilions and furniture, private houses, and installations at the 2015 Venice Biennale feeds into his designs for public buildings. Other essays discuss his engagement with geography, the urban environment, his approach to materiality, and architectural types. The presented projects include two public libraries and the National Museum of African American History and Culture, all in Washington D.C., a residential mixed-use building in New York, and a hybrid art-retail building in Beirut. Two of Adjaye's current projects are also included

David Adjaye ist der Shooting Star der Londoner Architekturszene und der erfolgreichste Architekt seiner Generation in der Stadt. Seine Karriere begann mit dem Bau von Häusern für Freunde aus der Young British Artists-Szene, gefolgt von dem ikonischen Social Club, einem Hotspot des Londoner Nachtlebens. Zu seinen bekanntesten Projekten zählen Entwürfe für Künstler wie Chris Ofili, Jake Chapman, Schauspieler Ewan MacGregor und Modedesigner Alexander McQueen. In nur wenigen Jahren hat Adjaye ein Büro mit 28 Mitarbeitern aufgebaut, dessen Entwürfe Kultstatus genießen. Als "hot architect of the moment" steht er am Beginn einer internationalen Karriere: Er hat gerade eine innovative Bibliothek im East End fertiggestellt, während zwei Kulturzentren in London, ein Medienlabor in Boston und das Nobel Peace Center in Oslo in Planung sind. In New York realisieren Adjaye/Associates derzeit ein Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst. Das Buch besteht aus vier Komponenten: einer Einführung von Peter Allison, einer Dokumentation der 30 wichtigsten Projekte Adjayes mit Beschreibungen, Plänen und Fotografien, Portfolios, die den atmosphärischen Charakter seiner Arbeiten beleuchten, und Essays von Kulturkritikern, Künstlern und Designern, die mit seinen Arbeiten in Berührung kamen. Adjaye wurde 1966 in Tansania geboren und wuchs durch die Berufstätigkeit seines Vaters in verschiedenen Ländern auf, bevor er 1979 nach London zog. Nach einem Kunststudi