Marc McQuade (ed.)

David Adjaye: Authoring

Re-placing Art and Architecture

Authoring: Re-placing Art and Architecture challenges traditional assumptions about the relationship between art and architecture. From 2008 through 2010, David Adjaye, along with Marc McQuade, taught three studios at the Princeton School of Architecture. Each studio focused on a collaboration with three distinguished artists—Matthew Ritchie, Teresita Fernández, and Jorge Pardo—on interventions in three vastly different sites: the state of New Jersey, the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, and the city of Mérida in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. Through an exploratory process of questioning, developing, and testing, each architect and artist reexamines the expectations traditionally associated with the conventions of architectural design and representation. Authoring: Re-placing Art and Architecture presents recent projects from David Adjaye, Matthew Ritchie, Teresita Fernández, and Jorge Pardo, along with interviews, essays, and archival material that unpack the shared space of art and architecture.

Authoring: Re-placing Art and Architecture challenges traditional assumptions about the relationship between art and architecture. From 2008 through 2010, David Adjaye, along with Marc McQuade, taught three studios at the Princeton School of Architecture. Each studio focused on a collaboration with three distinguished artists—Matthew Ritchie, Teresita Fernández, and Jorge Pardo—on interventions in three vastly different sites: the state of New Jersey, the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, and the city of Mérida in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. Through an exploratory process of questioning, developing, and testing, each architect and artist reexamines the expectations traditionally associated with the conventions of architectural design and representation. Authoring: Re-placing Art and Architecture presents recent projects from David Adjaye, Matthew Ritchie, Teresita Fernández, and Jorge Pardo, along with interviews, essays, and archival material that unpack the shared space of art and architecture.

Author(s): Teresita Fernández, Jorge Pardo, Matthew Ritchie

Edited by Marc McQuade, Iin cooperation with the Princeton School of Architecture

With contributions by David Adjaye, Stan Allen, Alex Coles, Teresita Fernández, Dave Hickey, Sanford Kwinter, Jorge Pardo, and Matthew Ritchie

Design: Thumb, New York

16.5 x 24 cm, 6 ½ x 9 ½ in

272 pages, 121 illustrations

paperback

2012, 978-3-03778-282-8, English
CHF 32.00

David Adjaye

David Adjaye, born in 1966 in Dar-Es-Salam, Tanzania, graduated from Royal College of Art in London in 1993. He is founder and principal architect of Adjaye Associates, an international architectural practice responsible for work ranging in scale from private houses to major art centers across the whole world. In 2009 he was selected to design the New Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C. He is recognized as one of the leading architects of his generation.

Marc McQuade

Marc McQuade, AIA, is an architect with experience in the United States and Switzerland designing cultural, civic, residential, and commercial buildings. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University. In 2010, McQuade joined Sir David Adjaye’s New York studio, overseeing the office with projects in North and South America and the Caribbean. Along with practicing architecture, he serves as an Adjunct Professor at John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto.