David Adjaye is the most exciting young architect to emerge on the international scene in many years.

The winner of the competition to design the Nobel Peace Centre in Oslo and the architect of the extension to Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Adjaye is currently enjoying enormous and ever-increasing worldwide attention. This publication, an object of beauty in its own right, is a timely celebration of an extraordinary young talent.

Born in Tanzania the son of a diplomat, David Adjaye enjoyed a wide-ranging formal and cultural education that has allowed him to respond deftly to wildly differing projects, avoiding conventional solutions and seeking to open up new possibilities for contemporary culture, both local and global.

The innovation in Adjaye’s career is exemplified in his residential works for a wide variety of clients and budgets. Perhaps his best-known residences are those for such creatives as artist Chris Ofili and and actor Ewan McGregor, and some of the houses in this publication have never been published.

• Introduction by Stuart Hall
• Documentation of thirteen of Adjaye’s important projects,
presented through descriptions, detailed plans and photographs
• Visual essays that highlight the tactile, luminous and luxurious
nature of Adjaye’s work
• Essays by cultural critics who have been touched by his
buildings.