Mono.Kultur 14
Mono.Kultur 14, David Adjaye
Softcover, 32 pp., offset 4/4, 140 x 200 mm
Edition of 5000
ISSN 1861-7085
Published by Mono.Kultur
$8.00 ·
From within the architecture profession, Adjaye seems to be at its periphery, but from without, at its centre. These parallel perspectives allow him to be simultaneously critical and engaged. In fact, being comfortable with not fitting in is something Adjaye seems to have learnt growing up. As the son of a Ghanaian diplomat, he was born in Tanzania and had lived in Libya, Cairo, Beirut and Saudi Arabia by the time he moved to London aged nine. And as an architecture student at the Royal College of Art, he spent more time with Fine Art students, including Chris Ofili, and Jake and Dinos Chapman, who later became his collaborators and clients.