Thinking In Public

Architect Sir David Adjaye OBE examines the idea of the monument and presents his thinking on how architecture and form are used as storytelling devices

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In February, my new exhibition David Adjaye: Making Memory opened at the Design Museum in London. The show is a response to an invitation I received from the Design Museum’s directors ‘to think in public’ about a theme of my choice — the role of making contemporary monuments and memorials. This has allowed me to think critically about the form of memorialisation and to explore some of the deeper meanings shared between a series of my projects.