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David Adjaye, principal of architecture firm Adjaye Associates, has received Harvard University's W. E. B. Du Bois Medal for his work in the field of African and African American studies. The award was presented in the university's Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, the façade of which Adjaya designed.
Adjaye, a Tanzanian-born, London-educated architect, incorporates childhood memories of traveling and living in various countries in his architecture. Adjaya Associates recently designed a development in the Harlem, New York, neighborhood, which consists of a 13-story complex integrated with affordable housing, a children's museum, and an education center. Along with holding the position of John C. Portman Design Critic in Architecture at Harvard, he has also held professorships at Princeton University, Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania, and London's Royal College of Art, where he studied.
Adjaye is part of the team that won the competition to design the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., which is set to open in 2015. This team includes Contract magazine's 2008 Designer of the Year Phil Freelon.
Other recipients of the award include: U.S. Congressman John L. Lewis, writer and activist Maya Angelou, architect David Adjaye, artist and activist Harry Belafonte, "12 Years a Slave" filmmaker Steve McQueen, television producer Shonda Rhimes, Miramax founder Harvey Weinstein, and Oprah Winfrey.
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