A new honor has its inaugural winner after the international Créateurs Design Awards (CDA) announced Sir David Adjaye as the recipient of the first-ever Charlotte Perriand Award.
The award goes in recognition of a living architect whose career achievements thus far have paralleled that of its namesake in their trailblazing contributions to shelter design in the industry.
Perriand was an influential figure in the world of residential building, championing the accessibility of design and the notion that quality designers can vastly improve the lives of ordinary people.
Sir David shared that she is a lifelong influence on his work, and one whose thinking and philosophy has expressions in his own designs for the Sugar Hill Development and Asem Pa project in New Orleans.
“She was really expansive in thinking about what the profession could be and understood the role of designers in their responsibility toward making the 21st century as beautiful and as empowering and as edifying as possible for people of all races — and for our human civilization to thrive.”
The incorporation of this philosophy has bled into Adjaye’s public commissions (“Although the public and private realms are separate fields, I need to know how to design living spaces in order to design successful public buildings,” he wrote in his 2017 monograph Living Spaces). As a result, the 55-year-old’s Winter Park Library designer's breadth of public work has left an impression on the selection committee, which includes Perriand’s daughter Pernette, who said she only wished the architect could have met her mother before her death in 1999.
“When I read his words in the press or his approach that he describes on social networks,” she said at the end of a press statement. “I see how great their proximity is, to the point that a real dialogue takes place beyond time."
No Comments
Block this user
Are you sure you want to block this user and hide all related comments throughout the site?
Archinect
This is your first comment on Archinect. Your comment will be visible once approved.