12 AXONOMETRICS

THEODORO GONZALEZ DE LEON: He faced the challenge of designing for a city that was racing to modernise

DAVID ADJAYE: Address local concerns and conditions via a historical understanding of context and global understanding of modernism

 TEODORO GONZALEZ DE LEON: Everybody crosses the patio - everybody meets there

 DAVID ADJAYE: Public buildings provide spaces that foster links and memory to people, and explore how neighbourhoods evolve.

 TEODORO GONZALEZ DE LEON: The no. 1 goal of architecture is to create useful objects. We create useful objects for the city to experience them - but also so that those objects move us.

DAVID ADJAYE: Narrative is essential to his design process, by exploring the meaning of 'African American'