ABSTRACT
Adjaye was the first Louis Khan Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 2006, the Kenzo Tange Professor in Architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design in 2007, and a Visiting Professor at Princeton University in 2008. The conversation that follows attempts to enlarge the lens through which Adjaye's architecture, as well as his role as a practitioner today, may be assessed. The text continues by elaborating on the particular local conditions and circles of people that, in his opinion, nurtured Adjaye's approach to architecture. Adjaye has learned this process by observing how colonial architecture has been appropriated in the world's so-called peripheries', which he experienced in his childhood and later travels. Such itinerant perspectives are reminders of the necessity to be conscious of the constant intercultural exchanges that characterize today's world, and that affect the ways architecture is being used and perceived by its various constituents.
