Visionary architect Sir David Adjaye OBE, the lead designer on the architectural team that worked on the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, talked about the project this month. "I loved the way in which the building behaved less like a building, and more like, for me, a tree. The tree is the first piece of architecture in any community and any vicinity," he said during a discussion about the museum at the Franklin Humanities Institute.
His firm has offices in London, New York and Accra with projects in the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Adjaye’s prominent projects include the Idea Stores in London (2005), Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (2007), the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO (2010), the Sugar Hill mixed-use social housing scheme in Harlem, New York (2015), and the Aishti Foundation retail and art complex in Beirut (2015), and Ruby City, a new arts center in San Antonio, Texas (2019).
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