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David Adjaye: Making Memory (Feb-May 2019)

 

Gwangju River Reading Room

The River Reading Room was a structure that responded to Gwangju’s ten-day pro-democracy uprising in May 1980, which ended in the massacre of hundreds of students and citizens.

A collaboration between Adjaye and the writer Taiye Selasi, the pavilion houses a library of 200 books about histories of social justice and protest, curated by Selasi. The space acts as a public reading room, encouraging the city’s inhabitants to exchange books and ideas related to freedom, democracy, equality and human rights.

 

[N]ew monuments and memorials by celebrated British-Ghanaian architect, Sir David Adjaye OBE...Discover seven of celebrated British-Ghanaian architect, Sir David Adjaye’s landmark structures through the use of full scale installations, films, exquisite architectural models, rare artefacts that influenced the creative process and more.

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Inside the Design Museum

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Uploaded on October 18, 2019
Taken on April 30, 2019