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- ※ Frist Architect -- David Adjaye
- 关键字：Architect 来源：上海企业画册设计公司 发布日期：2008-03-04 15:14
- Despite the fact that David Adjaye was born the son of a Ghanaian diplomat in Tanzania in the
mid-1960s and moved around the world with his family before setting in Britain, he is an
architect who is very much the product of the London in which he was educated.The particular
circumstances of London in the 1990s-its unprecedented building boom and burst of creative
energy in art,music,and fashion –have shaped the young architect’s projects and choice of clients. Adjaye began his career designing a series of predominantly
low-budget studios for a succession of young artists,including the controversialists chris ofili
and Jake Chapman. He went to work on a joint project for Folkestone’s public library on England’s South Coast ,with ofiliwho is best known for his preoccupation with the use of such unorthodox
materials as elephant dung-and then collaborated on the artist’s installation for the British pavilion
at the Venice Biennale in 2003.It was a relationship that has clearly marked Adjaye’s work
and has given it a distinctive flavor.Since founding ADJAYE/ASSOCIATES in 2000,he has been
able to reintroduce some sense of the physical ,tactile qualities that have been lost form
much contemporary architecture. Adjaye’s library at poplar has been gently introduced into
a 1970s shopping center and uses laminated timber beams, plywood, and multicolored glass .
His early projects were the product of London’s battered and jrimy streets . Adjaye manages
to bring together sensuality and grit to create a surreal dislocation that is rooted in the
familiar but also capable of jolting us out of the ordinary,.Adjaye’s Elektra House ,for
example is sited on a pinched East End terraced street ,replete with weathered late-Georgian brickwork,sach windows ,and paneled doors.
The regular pattern of glass and brick set up by the rest of the street is abruptly halted
by a mysterious, brooding black cube in the midst of the surrounding brick houses .Its smooth,
shiny skin is actually specially treated plywood ,although it could equally well be
steel or lead –an ambiguity that increases its exotic quality .Inside the house ,the cramped realities of
whitechapel street life slip away .Inside ,the house is configured to present carefully framed
views of the world that preserve the occupants’privacy form neighboring
windows just a few feet away .But Adjaye didn’t create the blank street front in a perverse attempt at contextualism –or even for security reasons. His clients wanted to be able to use
the ground floor as a gallery-like space in which to make and show lager-scale artworks but
also wanted to be able to live above them.Having proved himself an adept designer of small
spaces that have distinct auras , Adjaye is now working on lager-scale projects ,inclding
several more liararies in London and an art gallery in Denver .If his past projects are any
indication of what’s to come ,the architect will be able to take his interest in combining the material with the
gestural to another level .
