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Urban Africa - David Adjaye

Opens: 31/03/2010 Closes: 05/09/2010 Design Museum, London
Tanzanian-born ‘starchitect’ David Adjaye recently spent some time visiting the key cities of Africa (Kigali, Tripoli and Pretoria, to name a few) to document the various forms of urban development taking place on the continent. This exhibition brings his photography together, and provides a varied and highly intriguing account of progress. For more information visit: http://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/2010/urban-africa-a-photographic-journey-by-david… Buy: http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user?query=search&category=misc&search=David+Adjaye+®io…
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Guardian“Cities are always seen with the hasty eye of Adjaye's camera...” The show works best as a collection of vignettes and as a way of delivering a message: look at African cities. These things are worth doing, but David Adjaye's monumental act of tourism could lead to so much more...
 
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this is london“An addictive experience...” It’s an astonishing achievement, and perhaps the first comprehensive attempt to represent, to a popular audience, the state of African urban life...
 
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Financial Times“A stimulating counterpoint...” David Adjaye is attempting to explore the diversity embodied in the African city, partly to document, but also partly to dispel the clichés, the notions of these extraordinary places as dystopian monocultures of poverty, of the lost cause...
 
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