Architect David Adjaye doesn’t just construct buildings—he also creates learning experiences. As the designer of such high-profile places as the National Museum of African American History and Culture ...

The chair has long been a medium for the architect’s experimentation. Le Corbusier crafted his famed LC1, Frank Gehry sculpted the cardboard Wiggle, and Mies Van der Rohe rendered the iconic Barcelona ...

Architectural Digest: How did you approach creating this collection? David Adjaye: These are the first production pieces I’ve ever done, so I wasn’t sure how to deal with the idea of a chair. But I ...

Several other projects, including the Nigeria's Edo Museum of West African Art, have yet to comment on the allegations against the famed architect. David Adjaye with Genesis at the Miami Beach ...

A little more than a decade ago, David Adjaye hovered on the verge of bankruptcy, his budding architectural practice devastated by the Great Recession. “Budgets were slashed,” he recalls. “I was ...

Architect and designer David Adjaye, 50, is the ultimate modern nomad. Born in Tanzania to Ghanaian parents, he lived throughout Africa and the Middle East before his family settled in Britain. Today, ...

The public’s appetite for starchitects has made the competition for President Obama’s library an ongoing, glamorous story, and on December 21 seven firms made the shortlist to present their vision of ...

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has named Ghanaian-British architect David Adjaye winner of the 2021 Royal Gold Medal—the organization’s highest honor for architecture. “It’s ...

A fearless and nonconformist thinker at the height of his abilities, London-based, Ghanaian-British architect Sir David Adjaye OBE is reinventing the possibilities of his profession. One of the ...

GHANAIAN-British architect David Adjaye crafts buildings that are the Marlon Brandos of the designed world: brooding and weighty, resistant to easy interpretation and a bit mysterious. They tear you ...