David Adjaye is one of the leading architects to emerge in Britain today, whose practice combines the sensual and emotive with a conceptual approach to the fundamental elements of architecture. Refusing to reduce his formal vocabulary to a signature style, he has instead explored scale, measurement, space, light and materials in projects that have included private homes, retail spaces and public buildings. Titled "Making Public Buildings", the exhibition and this accompanying catalogue will focus on Adjaye's work in the public realm, and will be organised in three sections. The first, titled Inspiration, will bring together images that point to Adjaye's influences. The second will focus on production, and will bring together models relating to 12 projects, organised into five sections: Learning & Community; Education / Edification; Contemporary Art; Housing; and Public Places. Also included in this section will be writings, drawings and images relating both to the process of construction, and to elements of art and architectural history. The final section will consist of films exploring 12 completed buildings.

David Adjaye: Making Public Buildings /anglais

Arts & Photography

Peter Allison

Architecture

Whitechapel Art Gallery

The warm, funny and utterly engaging true story of a young Aussie safari guide who has spent the last twelve years leading tours in the African bush.

Whatever You Do Don't Run: My Adventures as a Botswana Safari Guide

Travel

Africa

Allen& Unwin

<p>In Peter's own words: These are the stories of a not particularly brave safari guide...As a child I knew that I was afraid of heights, and while uncomfortable admitting any phobia, was glad to have only one. Then I met my first crocodile. Now I know that there are at least two things in the world that unhinge my knees with fear, sour my breath, and overwhelm me with an urge to squeeze my eyes shut and wake up somewhere else. In this companion to "Don't Run, Whatever You Do", Peter Allison encounters ravenous lions, stampeding elephants and lovesick rhinos. He recounts his hairy, and often hilarious, adventures in a private section of South Africa's famous Kruger National Park and in Botswana's Okavango Delta, where desert animals from the Kalahari make their homes next to aquatic creatures like hippos, and where the unusual becomes commonplace. It is written with a wonderful, gentle humour evocative of Gerald Durrell. One can almost feel the heat from the campfire flames as the stories are told.</p>

Don't Look Behind You!: True Tales of a Safari Guide. Peter Allison

Nicholas Brealey Publishing

<p>Peter Allison makes his way to South America to seek out the continent's best, weirdest, and wildest adventures, and to chase down the elusive jaguar. In the first six months, he is bitten by a puma, knocked on his head by a bad empanada, and surrounded by pirhanas while rafting down a Bolivian river.</p>

How to Walk a Puma: & Other Things I Learned While Stumbling Through South America

South America

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Books by Peter Allison

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David Adjaye: Making Public Buildings /anglais

Whatever You Do Don't Run: My Adventures as a Botswana Safari Guide

Don't Look Behind You!: True Tales of a Safari Guide. Peter Allison

How to Walk a Puma: & Other Things I Learned While Stumbling Through South America