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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.

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CHOICE Review

This is the second book to appear on African-born, London-based architect Adjaye. It accompanies an exhibition called Making Public Buildings at the Whitechapel galleries in London. This exhibition, accompanying books, and other awards confirm Adjaye's status as a rising architectural superstar, a Zaha Hadid in the making. The other book on Adjaye's work, David Adjaye: Houses: Recycling, Reconfiguring, Rebuilding (CH, Nov'05, 43-1367), also edited by Allison, focused on Adjaye's seductive and provocative residential designs. The book at hand extends Adjaye's unique, unsettling design vocabulary to the public realm, illustrating such works as the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver. The secret of Adjaye's success is that he bridges Third World and Free World, i.e., the archaic and allusive world of primitive artifacts and the brave new world of 21st-century technology and materials. Trenchant essays and interviews by cutting-edge critics and teachers. ^BSumming Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals; two-year technical program students. P. Kaufman Boston Architectural Center

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Peter Allison is professor of architecture at South Bank University. He is the author of several books published by Thames & Hudson.