Adjaye Associates New York CEO Pascale Sablan has spoken about the impact of sexual misconduct allegations levelled against founder David Adjaye on the studio in an interview outlining its recent restructuring.
In an interview published earlier this week in US publication Architect's Newspaper (AN), Sablan said that the allegations published in a Financial Times (FT) investigation last year came as a surprise and were not in line with her own experience.
"I can only speak from my experience"
"I did my personal due diligence prior to joining the team, and so when those allegations were published, they were a big surprise to me," Sablan told AN.
"Not only was that not what was communicated to me before, but it also wasn't my lived experience. And I can only speak from my experience, right" I wasn't there." The FT investigation outlined accounts of alleged sexual misconduct by Adjaye towards three women in Adjaye Associates' Accra office, allegations that Adjaye denies.
At the time Adjaye said: "I absolutely reject any claims of sexual misconduct, abuse or criminal wrongdoing. These allegations are untrue, distressing for me and my family and run counter to everything I stand for."

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Since the release of the FT investigation, Adjaye's studio, which has offices in London, Accra and New York, has been removed from a number of...