Articles Tagged with ''Africa''

Konokono Vaccination Center

Konokono Vaccination Center

Made In the Shade: A desert clinic shifts notions about traditional materials and becomes a gathering place for a nomadic population.
David Cohn
June 16, 2015
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A desert clinic shifts notions about traditional materials and becomes a gathering place for a nomadic population.


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David Adjaye: Form, Heft, Material

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May 16, 2015
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Edited by Okwui Enwezor and Zoë Ryan in consultation with Peter Allison; Yale University Press , April 2015, 296 pages, $55. Wrapped in golden tracery, this nearly 300-page book showcases the sophistication and craftsmanship of the London-based architect David Adjaye. The book's material is drawn from an exhibition organized by the Art Institute of Chicago (where it's on view until January 3, 2016) and the Haus der Kunst in Munich (through May 31). The introduction, written by curators Zoë Ryan and Okwui Enwezor, defines two essential threads in Adjaye's work: a strong sense of artistry, materiality, and craft, as well
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Newsmaker: Olajumoke Adenowo

January 20, 2015
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Olajumoke Adenowo has been practicing architecture in Nigeria for more than a quarter of a century. Still, she became significantly better known when CNN named her “Africa’s star architect” in December, as part of a report on her Lagos-based practice, AD Consulting.


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Newsmaker: David Adjaye

Josephine Minutillo
Josephine Minutillo
October 3, 2014
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On Tuesday, David Adjaye received a W.E.B. Du Bois Medal from Harvard University, along with 12 Years a Slave filmmaker Steve McQueen, the late writer and activist Maya Angelou, and six others who were recognized for their contributions to African American culture. This fall, the architect also celebrates the opening of the early childhood education center at the base of his recently-completed Sugar Hill housing development in Harlem (click the link to read more about the building). The building combines pre-kindergarten classrooms, permanently affordable housing, and the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling. For Adjaye, who has offices
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Village Health Works Staff Housing

Cross-Border Collaboration: In a remote village in southern Burundi, an American architect joins forces with the local community to build a simple and sensitive dormitory for health-care staff.
James S. Russell, FAIA Emeritus
June 16, 2014
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In a remote village in southern Burundi, an American architect joins forces with the local community to build a simple and sensitive dormitory for health-care staff.


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