ADJAYE TOOK THE PRACTICAL AND RADICAL STRATEGY OF IGNORING THE BUILDING FORMALLY AND MATERIALLY

摘要

David Adjaye established his own practice in 1994 and quickly gained a reputation for reconstructing cafes, bars and private homes. Adjaye /Associates is now involved with major public projects, such as the newly completed Ideas Store in Whitechapel, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver and the Bernie Grant Centre in Tottenham. At the end of the long Cold War, even the most cynical among us dared to believe that the worlds attentions and efforts might turn a little towards minimising conflict and the use of arms. Instead, we learned yet again that the cause of peace is the most elusive of goals and needs promoting. The Nobel Peace Centre in Oslo opened 11 June 2005 and aims to 'promote peace through reflection, debate and involvement, by bringing major and minor conflicts to the public eye'. And if that wasn't challenging enough, it is also supposed to be a major tourist attraction and commemorate both the Nobel Peace Prize and its founder (and the prize choices are sometimes controversial: Henry Kissinger received one, for example, but Mahatma Gandhi did not).