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Автор: Edited by Peter Allison
Год: 2006
Издание:
Thames and Hudson
Страниц: 256
ISBN: 9780500286319, 0500286310
One of the most exciting and accomplished young architects to emerge on the international scene in many years, David Adjaye uses an artist's clarity of concept to create an engaging architecture that concentrates on materials and issues of place and identity. A combination of sheer inventiveness, creative clients and modest budgets has produced a refined and comprehensive body of design work unusual in such a young practitioner. Born in Tanzania into a diplomatic family, David Adjaye enjoyed a wide-ranging formal and cultural education, which has allowed him to respond deftly and instinctively' 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, constructed in a range of settings, which show careful experimentation and exquisite nuances. Perhaps his best-known houses are those for people such as artist...
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