Reflecting on memories

摘要

David Adjaye: Making Memory, is the Design Museum's first major architecture exhibition at its Kensington home. At the launch, co-director Deyan Sudjic remarked that while it was originally intended to be a retrospective, he was pleased that it had turned into an exhibition about an idea - the contemporary expression of monuments and memorials seen through the work of Adjaye Associates. I'm pleased too. With its focus on experiential space and narrative, it's a rewarding lens through which to view the work of a practice riding high after the triumph of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, one of seven projects in the exhibition. It's also excellent timing, with the Holocaust Memorial for central London, for which Adjaye is lead architect, in for planning permission.