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The National Museum of African American History and Culture, on the Mall in Washington, D.C., is a little more than two years away from its scheduled opening. When I visited the site in June with David Adjaye, the Ghanaian-British architect who won an international competition in 2009 to design the building, it was a five-acre hole in the ground. Construction din made conversation impossible, so Adjaye asked the foreman to drive us to the other end, where we sat under a tree on a grassy bank. Behind us was the Washington Monument, shrouded in scaffolding for repairs and maintenance. Adjaye is forty-six, young for a profession that favors age and experience, and he projects a youthful and frequently joyous self-confidence. Just over six feet tall, with a clean-shaved head and an elegant fringe of mustache that continues downward to frame his chin line, he was casually but impeccably dressed in narrow-cut black pants and an open-necked blue-and-white checked shirt, with a stylish windbreaker slung over one shoulder. The museum, which is being built on the last unoccupied site in the centerpiece of Pierre Charles L’Enfant’s 1
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David Adjaye
Ghanaian-British architect (born 1966)
Sir David Frank Adjaye (born 22 September 1966) is a Ghanaian-British[1]architect who has designed many notable buildings around the world, including the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.. Adjaye was knighted in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to architecture. He received the 2021 Royal Gold Medal,[2] making him the first African recipient and one of the youngest recipients.[3] He was appointed to the Order of Merit in 2022.[4]
Early life and education
[edit]Adjaye was born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The son of a Ghanaian diplomat, he lived in Tanzania, Egypt, Yemen and Lebanon[5] before moving to Britain at the age of nine.[6] Upon graduating from London South Bank University with a BA degree in architecture[7] in 1990,[8] he won the RIBA Bronze Medal for the best undergraduate design project in the UK (the Respite project).[9][10] In 1993 he graduated from a master's programme at the Royal College of Art.[8]
Career
[edit]Early projects
[edit]Adjaye's early works include many residential projects, including Chris Ofili's house in 1999, Dirty House