- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Thames and Hudson (May 31 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0500342059
- ISBN-13: 978-0500342053
- Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 20.8 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.4 Kg
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,418,784 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
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.
About the Author
David Adjaye, born in Tanzania, educated in the Middle East and in London, is principal of the 30-person-strong Adjaye Associates. He is one of the main presenters of the BBC's Dreamspaces programme. Peter Allison contributes to Domus, The Architectural Review and many other international architecture publications.
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blossuming..., Aug 15 2008
By David Cuthbert - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: David Adjaye Houses (Hardcover)
David Adjaye Houses: recycling, reconfiguring, rebuilding exhibits the overt of a blossuming architecture practice. The book is prefaced by "Negotiating Architecture" an original work written by post-colonial writer Stuart Hall as an integral presentation to this monograph of houses. The houses, nearly all in London, are mostly about their interiors, shown in a play of materials. The publishers, Thames & Hudson, took Adjaye's use of material a step further mimicking the look and feel of the facade of the Elektra house on the book's jacket. The dozen or so works in the book are punctuated by drawings and writings by Deyan Sudjic and Caroline Roux, as well as details that seek to capture the ethos of the relationship between space & form, information versus drama.
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