Authoring: Re-placing Art and Architecture challenges traditional assumptions about therelationship 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.
DAVID ADJAYE, born in Dar-Es-Salam, Tanzania, in 1966. He graduated from Royal College of Art, London, in 1993 and established his architectural practice in 2000. He is recognized as one of the leading architects of his generation. MARC McQUADE, born in 1978, is a project architect at Adjaye Associates, New York.