David Adjaye Bio, Age, Net Worth, Husband, Education, Career, Awards

David Adjaye Biography

David Adjaye who real name is Sir David Frank Adjaye is a British architect. He is known for designing many buildings around the world.

David Adjaye Age

He was born on September 1966 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He is aged 52 years as of 2018.

David Adjaye Net Worth

Adjaye has a net worth of over 1 million US dollars.

David Adjaye Husband and Personal Life

Adjaye married business consultant Ashley Shaw-Scott in 2014. He had Chris Ofili as his best man.

He was featured in an advertising campaign for British luxury brand Dunhill in 2012. He has also worked on numerous collaborative projects with his brother Peter Adjaye, a musician.

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David Adjaye Early Life and Education

He was born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He is a son of a Ghanaian diplomat, Adjaye lived in Tanzania, Egypt, Yemen and Lebanon before moving to Britain at the age of nine. After graduating with a BA in Architecture from London South Bank University in 1990, he was nominated for the RIBA President’s Medals and won the RIBA Bronze Medal for the best design project produced at BA level worldwide. Adjaye graduated with an MA in 1993 from the Royal College of Art.

David Adjaye Career

Early Projects
Year 1993, the same year of graduation, Adjaye won the RIBA President’s Medals Students Award, a prize offered for RIBA Part 1 projects, normally won by students who have only completed a bachelor’s degree. Prior a unit tutor at the Architectural Association, he was also a lecturer at the Royal College of Art.

Upon very short terms of work with the architectural studios of David Chipperfield (London) and Eduardo Souto de Moura (Porto), Adjaye established a practice with William Russell in 1994 called Adjaye & Russell, based in North London. That office was disbanded in 2000 and Adjaye established his own eponymous studio at this point.

Studio’s first solo exhibition, David Adjaye: Making Public Buildings, was shown at the Whitechapel Gallery in London in January 2006, with Thames and Hudson publishing the catalogue of the same name. It followed their 2005 publication of Adjaye’s first book, David Adjaye Houses.

Firm operations
February 2009, the cancellation or postponement of four projects in Europe and Asia forced the firm to enter into a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA), a deal to stave off insolvency proceedings which prevents financial collapse by rescheduling debts – estimated at about £1m – to creditors.

National Museum of African American History
15th April 2009, he was selected as one of a team of architects, which includes the Freelon Group, Davis Brody Bond and SmithGroup, to design the new $500 million National Museum of African American History and Culture, a Smithsonian Institution museum, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Adjaye’s design features a crown motif from Yoruba sculpture.

Other commissions
Beside his international commissions, Adjaye’s work spans exhibitions, private homes and artist collaborations. Adjaye built homes for the designer Alexander McQueen, artist Jake Chapman, photographer Juergen Teller, actor Ewan McGregor and artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster.

Artist Chris Ofili, he designed a new studio and a beach house in Port of Spain. Adjaye worked with Ofili to create an environment for The Upper Room, which was later acquired by Tate Britain and caused a nationwide media debate.

He collaborated with artist Olafur Eliasson to create a light installation, Your black horizon, at the 2005 Venice Biennale. Adjaye has also worked on the art project Sankalpa with director Shekhar Kapur.

He co-authored two seasons of BBC’s Dreamspaces television series and hosts a BBC radio programme. June 2005, he presented the documentary Building Africa: Architecture of a Continent. 2008, he participated in Manifesta 7 and the Gwangju Biennale.

Adjaye designed the new building for the Francis A. Gregory Neighborhood Library in Washington, D.C., which opened on 19 June 2012. 2015 he was commissioned to design a new home for the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Recent work
His recent works include the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, the Nobel Peace Centre in Oslo and the Skolkovo Moscow School of Management, completed in 2010. Adjaye designed the interior of New York City’s Spyscape museum.

At University School of Architecture. Adjaye was the first Louis Kahn visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania and was the Kenzo Tange Professor in Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Additionally, he is a RIBA Chartered Member, an AIA Honorary Fellow, a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council. Adjaye is a member of the Advisory Council of the Barcelona Institute of Architecture and also serves as member of the Advisory Boards of the Barcelona Institute of Architecture and the LSE Cities Programme.

Adjaye was part of the team that designed the Petronia City project in the heart of Nana Kwame Bediako’s Wonda World Estates 2000-acre mixed-use city development project, catering to the fast-growing oil and gas and mining sectors in the Western Region of Ghana.

Making Place: The Architecture of David Adjaye was on display at the Art Institute of Chicago from September 2015 to January 2016. March 2018 Adjaye Associates’ designs for the National Cathedral of Ghana was unveiled by Ghanaian president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

February 2019 he stated that Britain needed a black culture museum.

David Adjaye Awards

Year 2006, Adjaye was shortlisted for the Stirling Prize for the Whitechapel Idea Store, built on the remains of a 1960s mall. Adjaye was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2007 for services to British architecture.

Year 2016 he received the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s McDermott award, a $100,000 prize for excellence in the arts. He was knighted in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to architecture.

  • RIBA Bronze Medal for architecture students – 1990
  • Design Futures Council Senior Fellow
  • Design Miami/ Designer of the Year Award – 2011
  • Powerlist: Britain’s Most Influential Black Person – 2012

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