With over 50 built projects across the world, David Adjaye is rapidly emerging as a major international figure in architecture and design. Rather than advancing a signature architectural style, Adjaye’s structures address local concerns and conditions through both a historical understanding of context and a global understanding of modernism. The first comprehensive museum survey devoted to Adjaye, this exhibition offers an in-depth overview of the architect’s distinct approach and visual language with a dynamic installation design conceived by Adjaye Associates. Read more.
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Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington DC (current). Courtesy of Adjaye Associates. Photo by Steve Hall, Hedrich Blessing.

Francis A. Gregory Neighborhood Library, Washington DC (2012) ©Jeff Sauers, courtesy of Adjaye Associates.

Francis A. Gregory Neighborhood Library, Washington DC (2012) © Ed Sumner, courtesy of Adjaye Associates.

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