Title & Author:

David Adjaye : making public buildings : specificity, customization, imbrication / edited by Peter Allison.

Publication:

London : Whitechapel, ©2006.

Description:

223 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 24 cm

Notes:
Published on occasion of the exhibition held at Whitechapel Gallery, London, Jan. 24-March 26, 2006; Netherlands Architecture Institute, Maastricht, autumn, 2006; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, aurumn, 2007, and Arario Gallery, Beijing, winter, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references.
Popular sovereignty and public space : David Adjaye's architecture of immanence / Okwui Enwezor -- Built complexity and public engagements / Saskia Sassen -- Res Publica or just a public thing / Nikolaus Hirsch -- Materials and materiality / Peter Allison -- Omitting the void : an architecture of engagement / Peter Allison and David Adjaye -- Learning from Lagos : a dialogue on the poetics of informal habitation David Adjaye / Kodwo Eshun.

Summary:

"David Adjaye is one of Britain's leading contemporary architects, whose designs emphasize the experience as much as the function of architecture. Known for domestic projects that explore the unfolding of interior space, Making Public Buildings focuses for the first time on Adjaye's engagement with civic space and the built environment." "Published on occasion of his exhibition at London's Whitechapel Gallery, this publication brings together a distinguished list of authors to reflect on Adjaye's practice, significance and influences. They are accompanied by drawings, documents and photographs relating to ten of Adjaye's most important projects, all published here for the first time."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

0854881433
9780854881437

Subject:

Adjaye, David, 1966-
Public buildings Design and construction.
Public facilities.

Form/genre:

Exhibition publications.

Added entries:

Adjaye, David, 1966-
Allison, Peter.

Making public buildings

Holdings:

Location: Library main 246520
Call No.: BIB 176113
Status: Available