Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
David Adjaye: Form, Heft, Material
Exhibition: 07JUN – 30 JUL ­2017
9/32 Krymsky Val st., 119049, Moscow, Russia
http://garagemca.org/

David Adjaye, Sugar Hill Development, New York
Photo: Ed Reeve Courtesy Adjaye Associates

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
David Adjaye: Form, Heft, Material
Saturday, 17. June 2017 | 16 –17:30 Uhr
Discussion. Filipp Yakubchuk and Polina Lyzlova.
Exhibition: 07JUN – 30 JUL ­2017
9/32 Krymsky Val st., 119049, Moscow, Russia
http://garagemca.org/

Form, Heft, Material, the mid-career survey of world-renowned architect Sir David Adjaye’s work to date, launched this June at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow.

The exhibition, organized in collaboration with Haus der Kunst in Munich and the Art Institute of Chicago, offers insight into the global architect’s unique approach, highlighting the ways he weaves local geographies and cultural legacies into his celebrated designs. Showcasing over twenty examples of his built works, including the Moscow School of Management (Skolkovo), the exhibition also provides rare access to Adjaye’s research strategies in the early stage of design development.

David Adjaye, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut
Courtesy Adjaye Associates Photo:Guillaume Ziccarelli
Courtesy Adjaye Associates

David Adjaye: Form, Heft, Material is the first exhibition of a major architect at Garage and inaugurates a new chapter in the Institution’s longstanding interest in developing discourse around contemporary architecture and its role in society today. Adjaye’s firm Adjaye Associates has developed an exhibition design specifically for the Museum, bringing his characteristic sense of light and pacing to Garage’s historical modernist building.

“I am thrilled to bring Form, Heft, Material to Moscow, a city that was critical to the development of my approach to working in diverse geographies across the globe,” said Sir David Adjaye. “Garage is an incredible institution whose international perspective and capacity for stimulating interdisciplinary dialogue has made them an ideal partner. I am honored to be part of the Museum’s deepening engagement with architecture.”

David Adjaye,
Temporary Museum for Venice Art Biennale 2015
Courtesy Venice Art Biennale

David Adjaye
David Adjaye is a Ghanaian-born architect who lives in London. In 2000, he founded Adjaye Associates, which currently has offices in London, New York, and Accra. To date Adjaye Associates have completed over fifty buildings in Europe, USA, Africa, Asia and the Middle East, including the campus of the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo (2010) and Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (2016). Adjaye is currently working on a new home for the Studio Museum in Harlem (New York) and a building for the Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art (Riga). In 2017, he was named Knight Bachelor in Queen Elizabeth II’s annual New Year’s Honours. He lives and works in London and New York.

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