Dirty House David Adjaye

Who is David Adjaya?

David Adjaye was born in Tanzania. His father was a Ghanaian diplomat. He trained with English architects David Chipperfield and Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura Architects He is graduated in 1993 from the Royal College of Art located in Londo. He started his own practice in 1994 called Adjaye Architects.He lives and works in London, and has an international reputation. His offices are in North London. On April 15, 2009, the New York Times reported that Adjaye was selected to design the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.

Dirty House – David Adjaye

David has become well-known for his intriguing houses. These houses are innovative especially in materials and colour, and for The Idea Store building typology which is both a library and education centre. David Adjaye loved the way he named all of his buildings-- Lost House, Pitch Black, Dirty House. Who wouldn't want to live in a house titled Dirty House? David Adjaye definitely seemed to have a focus on experience rather than just appearance of his architecture. David used the materials in the Dirty House were beautiful--black granite or marble, and glass, which were beautiful, but also very powerful in the way they worked together at the various punched interior atria. The interior of the house was quite dark, not entirely because of lack of light, but also because of choice of materials. The details inside the building as also very engaging; David liked the way there was a room designed for the kids who would most often use it, with holes on the floor and low on the walls to hear newscasts from various cities around the world. This integration of technology and architecture continued in other spaces, like one that had pedestals that activated when someone approaches them. The colors of the place were also bold and striking, which was refreshing to see and feel good experience.

Reasons of Adjaye insolvency

Adjaye, who formed Adjaye Associates in 2000 and was shortlisted for the Stirling Prize in 2006 for his Whitechapel Idea Store library, has rapidly developed a reputation as an international architect, opening offices in Berlin and New York and earlier this year winning a leading role to design the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC. David Adjaye has been forced to turn to insolvency experts to rescue his firm from the brink of financial collapse, despite pumping in half a million pounds of his own money to keep it afloat. Accounts from March 2008 — the most up-to-date available — show that the David Adjaye company made a loss of £59,000 and owed more than £1 million to creditors. If the accounts back in March 2008 say the firm owed £1m and made a loss, then his "financial problems" weren't due to the current financial crisis which began later. Might the more reasonable explanation be bad management, terrible risk-taking