RIBA Gold Medal for Architecture Winner 2021, Sir David Adjaye OBE, Architecture Honours
RIBA Gold Medal for Architecture 2021 Winner – Sir David Adjaye
30 Sep 2020
RIBA Gold Medal for Architecture 2021
Sir David Adjaye OBE to receive 2021 Royal Gold Medal for Architecture

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The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is pleased to announce that Sir David Adjaye will receive the 2021 Royal Gold Medal, one of the world?s highest honours for architecture.
The Royal Gold Medal is approved personally by Her Majesty The Queen and is given to a person or group of people who have had a significant influence ‘either directly or indirectly on the advancement of architecture’.
Sir David Adjaye has achieved international attention for an exceptional body of work over 25 years. Drawing on his cited influences including ?contemporary art, music and science to African art forms and the civic life of cities?, his completed projects range from private houses, exhibitions and furniture design, through to major cultural buildings and city masterplans. From the start of his career he has combined practice with teaching in schools of architecture in the UK and the USA, including professorships at the universities of Harvard, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Princeton. Abrahamic Family House Abu Dhabi, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, UAE

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Abrahamic Family House Abu Dhabi
His practice, Adjaye Associates, was founded in 2000 and ...