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Name
  
Kunle Adeyemi


Role
  
Architect

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Education
  
University of Lagos, Princeton University

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Kunlé Adeyemi (born (1976-04-07)7 April 1976) is a Nigerian architect, urbanist and creative researcher. Adeyemi is founder and principal of NLÉ, an architecture, design and urbanism practice, based in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Adeyemi studied at the University of Lagos in Nigeria and Princeton University in New Jersey, the United States. Before starting his own office in the Netherlands, he worked nearly a decade at Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA).

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Early life

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Adekunle Adeyemi was born and raised in Kaduna, in the north of Nigeria, and studied and started his early career in Lagos. His father was a modernist architect and started one of the first indigenous architecture firms in North Nigeria in the 1970s. In his mid-teens, Adeyemi had the opportunity to design his first house, for a friend of his father.

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Adeyemi studied architecture at the University of Lagos in Nigeria, and finished his Bachelor as Best Graduate. In 2005, Adeyemi received a Post-Professional degree at Princeton University in New Jersey. At that university, Adeyemi investigated together with Peter Eisenman, the rapid urbanisation and the role of market economies in developing cities of the Global South, focusing on Lagos.

Early career

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In his early career, Adeyemi worked on projects in Lagos, Abuja and other parts of Nigeria. After that, Adeyemi joined OMA (The Office for Metropolitan Architecture) in 2002, where he was Senior Associate and worked for about nine years alongside its award-winning founder Rem Koolhaas. There, Adeyemi led the following projects, in different stages:

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  • Qatar Foundation Headquarters, the Central Library and the Strategic Studies Center, in the Education City in Doha
  • The 4th Mainland Bridge and Master Plan in Lagos
  • The Prada Transformer project in 2009
  • New Court Rothschild Bank project in London (2006). This bank is about to open soon
  • Master plan concept for Abuja – AIST, Nigeria in 2006 for the Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology
  • Shenzhen Stock Exchange in 2006, opened in November 2007
  • The Seoul National University Museum project in 2005
  • The S-project Masterplan for Seoul in 2004
  • The Leeum Museum in Seoul in 2004.

    • Current work and projects

    Currently, Adeyemi runs his own architecture, design and urbanism practice called NLÉ, located in Amsterdam. NLÉ means 'at home' in Yoruba. With his office NLÉ, Adeyemi is interested in elements that make up a city. He focuses especially on the rapidly growing cities in developing countries. Adeyemi seeks the logic in systems that arise in the rapid development of those cities. He observes and questions the existing systems within these cities, and creates new solutions inspired by his own 'reading' of those systems. Adeyemi is convinced that there is much to learn from the type of condition that is found in rapidly developing, energetic cities, like one of Africa's most populated cities Lagos in Nigeria. NLÉ offers a strategy advisory service and focuses on city development research, conceptualisation, creative structuring, architectural-, product- and infrastructure design, arts and urban cultural intervention. Among others, Adeyemi conducted with NLÉ the following activities:

  • Building prototype housing for urban tropic environment.
  • ‘Queensday Lagos’, to exchange the Dutch Queensday experience with inhabitants of Lagos by video conferencing
  • Lagos Photo project with the African Artists' Foundation.
  • Makoko Floating School.

    • Academic contribution

    Adeyemi gave and gives lectures and workshops at universities and conferences in Amsterdam, Zurich, Delft, Guggenheim, and published several articles on architecture and urbanism:

  • Adeyemi is 2011 Callison Distinguished Visiting Lecturer of the University of Washington, faculty of Architecture, teaching and researching 'The Modern City in the Age of Globalization' in Chandigarh, together with Dr. Vikramaditya Prakash, following-up Glenn Murcutt.
  • At PICNIC 2011 (yearly creative conference), Adeyemi spoke about organic urban growth versus city planning
  • Adeyemi was visiting critic at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in America, the Architectural Association in London, and the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam
  • Adeyemi published the article "Urban Craw" in the LOG Journal, summer/fall 2007, about Observation on Architecture and Contemporary Cities
  • In 2006, Adeyemi was keynote speaker at the Guggenheim Symposium "Contamination, Impure Architecture", next to Zaha Hadid, Sanford Kwinter, and Alex McDowell
  • Adeyemi was in 2006 a teacher at the Urban Body Studio of the Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture.
  • Adeyemi joined Architecture for Humanity as competition juror and project reviewer.

    • References

    Kunlé Adeyemi Wikipedia
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