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11 Jan 2017
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Architect David Adjaye among LSBU alumni honoured in New Year
11th January 2017 – Distinguished international architect and London South Bank University (LSBU) alumnus David Adjaye is to become Sir David Adjaye after being awarded a knighthood for services to architecture in the Queen?s New Year Honours list 2017.
He can now add KCVO to the OBE he was awarded in 2007 and the Queen?s Birthday Honours he received in October 2016. Adjaye tops a list of five LSBU alumni, visiting professors and honorary graduates to be honoured by the Queen in 2017: · Vera Baird QC – Dame Commander of British Empire, Visiting Professor of Law at LSBU;

· Sir Cyril Chantler – Knight Grand Cross of British Empire, awarded Honorary Doctor of Science, LSBU (1999);

· Cecilia Anim ? CBE, LSBU Alumna (1994);

· Joe Baden ? CBE, Honorary Fellow of LSBU, (awarded 2009);

· Professor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent ? OBE Visiting Professor of Midwifery.

photograph courtesy of Doug Aitken Workshop and 303 Gallery, NY
David Adjaye studied architecture at LSBU, before training with renowned architects David Chipperfield and Eduardo Souto De Moura. He founded his own practice at the age of just 28 – since when he has built a global reputation for excellence in d...