African Design Magazine ADM #37 February 2018 | Page 40

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Sir David Adjaye was honoured as a Knight Bachelor for his services to architecture in 2017, as
part of the Queen's biannual honours programme and is mainly known to the general public for his
high-prole projects, including the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO (2010) and the
National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC which opened in
September 2016.
orld-renowned British Ghanaian architect David Adjaye was
honoured last year with a knighthood for his services to
architecture as part of the Queen's biannual honours programme.
Sir David Adjaye received his award from Prince William, Duke of
Cambridge at an official Investiture ceremony held at Buckingham
Palace. The knighthood follows two previous royal awards received by
Sir David – the 2016 Queen's Birthday Honours in October 2016 and an
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2007.
The knighthood crowns a memorable 12 months for the architect, who celebrated his 50th
birthday in September 2016 and at the same time completed the largest project in his career to
date – the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History &
Culture on Washington DC's National Mall. He was named one of 2017's most influential
people by TIME magazine and became a new Royal Academician by the Royal Academy of
Arts.
Apart from the above mentioned , Adjaye has to his name a series of fine quality residences,
which inspire our one's perception of domestic spaces in the third millennium. These are
residential projects that were completed across four continents, from London to Ghana, from
Port of Spain to New Orleans through to China, and nine of them feature in the book “David
Adjaye: Living Spaces” edited by Peter Allison for UK-based publishers Thames & Hudson.
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