{"id":9274,"date":"2016-08-17T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/architizer.wpengine.com\/kunle-adeyemi-taking-bold-steps\/"},"modified":"2022-05-31T08:29:11","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T12:29:11","slug":"kunle-adeyemi-taking-bold-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/architizer.com\/blog\/inspiration\/stories\/kunle-adeyemi-taking-bold-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Bold Steps: Kunl\u00e9 Adeyemi Discusses the Need for Architects to Merge Global Aspirations with Local Realities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Architizer is pleased to announce a partnership with urbanNext<\/a>, a multi-platform aimed at developing, disseminating and distributing content centered on architecture through a focus on the contemporary human milieu and its challenges. Architizer will feature a weekly discussion from urbanNext’s journals to support its investigation of urban conditions and innovations facing the architectural profession today.<\/h4>\n

For the inaugural post of Architizer’s collaboration with architecture and urbanism platform urbanNext<\/a>, Architizer presents a video interview with architect Kunl\u00e9 Adeyemi, recipient of the Silver Lion award for participant at the 2016 Venice Biennale. Featured as a part of urbanNext’s journal Expanding Design Practices<\/a>, correspondent Ibai Rigby interviewed the founder and principal of the global firm NL\u00c9 Works<\/a> in his floating pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, which was modeled after the practice’s famed Makoko Floating School<\/a> in Lagos, Nigeria. <\/p>\n

In keeping with the Biennale’s theme established by this year’s curator Alejandro Aravena, ‘Reporting from the Front,’ Adeyemi discusses the need for architects to become “more serving to society,” and “address the needs of the average person,” by engaging with local populations on a personal level.<\/p>\n

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