David Adjaye on geographic specificity
"It's funny to be talking about geography to architects." With these words David Adjaye began his presentation to the 2014 National Architecture Conference in Perth, in which he discussed how geography, climate and place inform the making of cities and architecture. Adjaye has spoken...
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| Published in: | Architecture Australia 2014-11, Vol.103 (6), p.31-32, 34 |
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| Format: | Magazinearticle |
| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | "It's funny to be talking about geography to architects." With these words David Adjaye began his presentation to the 2014 National Architecture Conference in Perth, in which he discussed how geography, climate and place inform the making of cities and architecture. Adjaye has spoken previously of the broader perspective he gained as a teenager travelling across the African continent with his parents before going on to study architecture in London. In 'Adjaye, Africa, Architecture: A Photographic Survey of Metropolitan Architecture' (2011), he has documented his observations of fifty-three African cities, made between 1999 and 2010 when he returned to engage anew with the African continent with the sensibilities of an architect. In a presentation that "was supposed to be like a poem, like I was telling a little story that offered up many things," Adjaye alluded to the rich influences of his research into African architecture and cities and the impressive parallel growth of his now international architectural practice, Adjaye Associates, over this eleven-year period. Anna Tweeddale joined Adjaye following his presentation to discuss some of these insights. |
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| ISSN: | 0003-8725 |