RECORD contributing editor Izzy Kornblatt is a Ph.D. candidate at the Yale School of Architecture. He is the editor of Encounters: Denise Scott Brown Photographs (Lars Müller Publishers, 2025).
The Baltimore-born architect was a fixture at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles beginning in the 1980s, including as director of its graduate program.
With the opening of the Abrahamic Family House on Abu Dhabi’s Saadiyat Island earlier this year, David Adjaye joined the ever-growing list of international star architects with work in the United Arab Emirates.