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In a way, I feel I have enough tools and knowledge now that when I build it has a very specific agency that's very conscious. It's no longer speculative it's really constructed. I'm very interested in how that consciousness, about how I am producing, is working within different conditions. It's like growing up.

David Adjaye

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David Adjaye
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: September 22
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David Frank Adjaye
Sir David Frank Adjaye
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