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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. right, is a timely celebration of a young talent at the height - and yet at the beginning - of his creative powers.

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• Stuart Hall: Negotiating Architecture(p. 8)
• Elektra House(p. 12)
• Dirty House(p. 26)
• Fog House(p. 42)
• Lost House(p. 56)
• Portfolio: Light and Colour(p. 74)
• Peter Allison: Living in Ruins(p. 82)
• Pottery Shed(p. 90)
• Concrete Garden(p. 100)
• Glass House(p. 108)
• Portfolio: Furniture(p. 118)
• Caroline Roux: The Tale of a House(p. 132)
• Ofili House and Studio(p. 138)
• McGregor House(p. 154)
• Swarovski House(p. 170)
• Deyan Sudjic: Building in London(p. 186)
• SJW House(p. 192)
• KPG House(p. 204)
• Bar House(p. 222)
• Portfolio works(p. 234)
• Biographical Notes(p. 252)
• Credits(p. 253)
• Adjaye/Associates(p. 254)
• Copyright details(p. 256)

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This book documents the work of Adjaye, a talented London designer who specializes in the adaptive reuse of existing, older buildings. Adjaye is dedicated to the art of modernism, so his spaces and surfaces are clean, spare, transparent, and minimalist--in contrast to the rugged brick and concrete of the structures into which he inserts his interventions. Echoes of Mies van der Rohe and many of Mies's minimalist offspring abound, including American fluorescent-light artist Dan Flavin and Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron. Adjaye is one of the most prominent black African architects in the world today, and he has recently been commissioned to design the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver and the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway, which will bring him international renown. This is the first monograph on him. For architecture and art library collections. ^BSumming Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. P. Kaufman Boston Architectural Center