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Haaii, Nii Ayi, This guy is not only a Great Architect but also Wonderful musician - A Pianist virtuoso. With his twin Brother Augustus, their worldview is 'spaceless'. Congratulations!!!
What a wonderful interview and lecture. Sir David Adjaye is highly educated in the Western System of architecture but he has not lost the African aesthetic. The Museum of African American History and Culture on the Mall in Wash DC, is colored black on the outside. The building is encased in a design which combines the Yoruba corona and the African American grilled ironwork of New Orleans, La and the Carolinas in the US south. It evokes memory of our past in West Africa and new reality of life in the Southern US. Beautiful building which should be a must see.
One of your best episodes, again Nii Ayi am encouraging you to take this opportunity to organize a second interview with this guy, again for his thoughts on our heritage, the Forts and Castles dotted along the coastal lines, and other colonial heritages and vestiges. like I suggested to you sometime ago, Ghana is said have about 64 Castles and Forts along the coastal lines and other parts, some of these heritage sites are in disrepair and needing spotlights and repairs, if these are constantly highlighted and fixed these alone potentially would attract a lot of tourists especially the diaspora and Ghana stands to make billions from it.
@@niiayi fabulous thoughtful interview. These are the conversations we need to be having as a country. Another good architect to interview is Akosua Obeng. He brought up a good point about KNUSTs architecture. You need to visit the campus and showcase it too
Beautification as a class/subject should be taught to all students in Ghana. People need to learn to beautify their surrounding with what is natural around them.
Nyi Aii, you bring so much to the table. A wonderful thing. We are seeing africa being changed with our own eye. Africa is the future and the future is africa. 😉
Thanks Nii Ayi. Good to have featured the Leader of Ghanaian Architecture. Kindly enquire why in this day and age houses are being built without drain pipes to harvest the rain water causing a lot of erosion, flooding and chaos during the raining season!
The gentleman lives and breath architecture, extremely knowledgeable and a delight to listen too. Bless him for his vision and mission to help transform the narrative surrounding architecture from a historic and cultural perspective. Another great piece brother, keep up the good work Cheers
Nii great work. I am loving it this is good 👍 information and educational at the same time. Please kindly get him back this is what Ghanaians living abroad needs to learn and come back home to help. Thanks from Nevada.
The real problem of the African architecture is the availability of construction machinery, cranes, excavators, bulldozers etcc. We have the quality in terms of qualified architects not in the tools and machines to increase efficiency and productivity. The African governments must be serious and must start to tackle corruption and illicit transactions right now
These machineries are easily be bought today by entrepreneurs in the construction business... By computerizing everything...it will help trace all the transactions and reduce corruption...It only a matter of time...
4 года назад
bil ls the corruption is exactly to have to buy instead of acquiring the technology. Russia is ready to transfer the technology as well as some military ones. It is Time to put an end to all the lies and the hypocrisy as well as the corruption.
@ I am a great advocate of that... Manufacture machineries in Africa...But I don't believe in " technology transfer"...If Russia does it great...But Asians for example, go and get it in the West...through education, work experiences, etc... There are increasing number of Africans in top universities across the world working for top companies.... What are they doing...? 1-For example, Chinese diaspora played a significant role in the rise of China (even though the country is not a democratic country)...Many Asians in the West always take pictures and copy what they find beautiful and replicate them in their country of origin. I know many Asians in the US who start their companies in the US and then open branches of their companies in their countries of origin and they transfer slowly technologies... I heard a story of a company in Canada that went bankrupt and was bought by a Vietnamese-Canadian...Guess what he did? He moved the company back to Vietnam with all the machines and technologies and start operating... 2-People are building in the meantime...For Africa to really start manufacturing those machines...They should train more gifted young Africans and encourage many entrepreneurships in the following fields: a) Mining Engineering (To explore and extract the minerals) www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings-articles/university-subject-rankings/new-ranking-worlds-top-mining-engineering-schools Many Africans should have their own mining companies operating in many African countries... It great that Ghana has Ibrahim Mahama the largest indigenous-owned mining company in West Africa: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_Mahama_(businessman) Ghana need more like him... b) Metallurgical Engineering (To process, transform the minerals into metal etc...) www.universities.com/programs/metallurgical-engineering-degrees www.postgrad.com/courses/metallurgy/europe/ www.eng.tohoku.ac.jp/english/academics/studies/graduate/metallurgy.html www.bcit.ca/study/programs/metalfabrication c) Mechanical and Electrical (and electronics) Engineering (To make machine) www.sculpteo.com/blog/2018/10/31/top-20-of-the-best-mechanical-engineering-schools-in-the-world/ www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2018/engineering-electrical-electronic d) Automotive Engineering ( to make those machines and even cars etc... ) www.automotiveengineeringhq.com/automotive-engineering-schools/
4 года назад
bil ls you are nice to collaborate but about the rise of China it was certainly political and the state owned enterprises played a more significant role than the Diaspora I am sorry to insist on such a critical point. You’re saying that their students came in the U.S and brought the technology back I am not sure it did happen so easily, remember that Hong Kong was still a brutish colony back in 1997 !!!!! That the Cold War ended just 7 years before as well as the Iron Curtain. State owned companies and the COMMUNIST Party in China were VERY decisive in their policy of protecting the market and acquire the technologies by controlling everything INCLUDING the foreign companies profit margins etccc. You don’t understand Africa enough and the Africans, to make things work, the private sector is not the ultimate solution on the contrary, it is responsible of the present situation with very low level of industrialization and improvement of the way of life. I don’t shy away from accusing the corruption, the piracy from international firms more particularly from the West who look for any tactic and strategies and cunning to limit our capabilities. It’s the truth, it may hurt but it’s true. Without the state owned companies, there are very limit to move forward rapidly because you need state control to succeed the coordination of the different sectorial policies. You need the control the fiscal policy, improve the security and preserve what must be including the adverses. China understood quickly that revolts would have succeed one after the other without addressing the issue of social justice.
@ Concerning China I said the diaspora " played a role"...It doesn't mean they did everything... You are right regarding the role of Chinese Government... I am all for more companies, industries in Africa...whether is it State-owned or not...I support state-owned... But I also support and encourage locally owned private companies....specially in case the State fails in it role... You highlighted the example of China with the political role of the government...That is good...But in the West 80-90% of the jobs creation, industries, factories, modern farms, the real estate developments and developments in general in most developed countries are done by private citizens (entrepreneurs, investors, intellectuals etc)... 1-In Nigeria the government has failed...they export crude oil...cheap...and import very expensive refined oil...A Nigerian entrepreneur/industrialist decided to stop that stupidity... Dangote is completing right now the World largest oil refinery, petrochemical industry and fertilizer for agriculture...etc... See: World's largest Crude distillation column, Dangote Refinery, Nigeria ruclips.net/video/6v_0LnQTMd0/видео.html That investment will help the country as a whole save billions in foreign exchange (used to import refined oil) and increase significantly the GDP of the country in the coming years... 2-See How one man company called Tata Built India: Two Centuries of Indian Business ruclips.net/video/Gi80SEy0KL4/видео.html
So what pisses me off is we have a world-renowned Ghanaian ARCHITECT called DAVID ADJEI who is not doing any projects in Ghana but in Europe? what does that tell you Ghanaians? does he have any projects in Ghana? I bet no, isn't that very sad? Not even visiting his own country to inspire architectural students, I am not surprised.
Bro u didn't do any research........... David adjaye is building our national cathedral, he is building the marine drive project, he built kofi Annan's residence in Ghana, he has built apartment complexes in cantonment, and many projects to come........ Oh and yh, he lives and works in GH now....... RESEARCH BRO........ Just 5mins..
joseph otchere You’re very right and thank God that there are Positive Ghanaians like you who care about the country and are paying attention to what’s going on .That GMO g guy is himself the sort of Ghanaian he was talking about. He doesn’t live in Ghana and I’m very sure not building or contributing anything to the development of the country, but that doesn’t stop him from always commenting negatively. I can’t stand negative people, they’re the bane of my life and I’m positive he’s one of these Ghanaians living abroad who try to dissuade friends from investing in Ghana ! I had friends like that but unlike them , I had foresight and I’m happy I ignored them.
Do your research he is doing some work in Ghana too, let's me ask you this question? If you are an artist do you want your product to be consume by Ghanians only or you want the world to be your market place?
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Thanks for the interview
Welcome
YES, GHANAIANS ARE EXCEPTIONALLY GREAT AND GIFTED PEOPLE, PERIOD.
Yes, the US Black museum was design by a Ghanaian.
Wow
That’s the guy he mentioned
Going to school for Interior Design in Canada hoping to bring my skills to Ghana very soon
Best of luck!
Wish u good luck to o😊🇬🇭❤️
I just finished mine Interior architecture but rather don’t know which opportunities I could have in ghana.
@@akuaadu-gyamfi5829 Hey, where are you based please?
@@akuaadu-gyamfi5829 try to get an internship with Orthner, Orthner & Associates in Accra
Edla Monroé I am based in Germany 😊
A Ghanaian also designed the Noble Peace Prize Center in Oslo
Wow
Kindly name that famous Ghanaian architect who designed the Nobel Peace Prize centre?
@@brodwellington1626Sir David Adjaye @Adjaye_visual_sketchbook
@@TUNTALKS 👍👍👍❤️🇬🇭🇬🇭
Wow. We Africans have everything
Yeah
Nii Ayi, I love the direction you have taken your channel. Well done, my brother.
Thank you
Haaii, Nii Ayi, This guy is not only a Great Architect but also Wonderful musician - A Pianist virtuoso. With his twin Brother Augustus, their worldview is 'spaceless'. Congratulations!!!
Thank you
This is great God bless Ghana 👌👌
Amen
I am studying real estate development at knust.
All the best ok
What a wonderful interview and lecture. Sir David Adjaye is highly educated in the Western System of architecture but he has not lost the African aesthetic. The Museum of African American History and Culture on the Mall in Wash DC, is colored black on the outside. The building is encased in a design which combines the Yoruba corona and the African American grilled ironwork of New Orleans, La and the Carolinas in the US south. It evokes memory of our past in West Africa and new reality of life in the Southern US. Beautiful building which should be a must see.
Inspiration from within is very important compared to almost always seeking it from outside of Africa.
Exactly
One of your best episodes, again Nii Ayi am encouraging you to take this opportunity to organize a second interview with this guy, again for his thoughts on our heritage, the Forts and Castles dotted along the coastal lines, and other colonial heritages and vestiges. like I suggested to you sometime ago, Ghana is said have about 64 Castles and Forts along the coastal lines and other parts, some of these heritage sites are in disrepair and needing spotlights and repairs, if these are constantly highlighted and fixed these alone potentially would attract a lot of tourists especially the diaspora and Ghana stands to make billions from it.
Fact
Sure, I do remember that, will soon be travelling to do all That. Will bring him back. Thank you
@@niiayi fabulous thoughtful interview. These are the conversations we need to be having as a country. Another good architect to interview is Akosua Obeng. He brought up a good point about KNUSTs architecture. You need to visit the campus and showcase it too
Any contact of her please
@@niiayi this is her firm's contacts www.orthnerarchitects.com
m.facebook.com/OOAGhana/
T: 0302 544 069
E: office@orthnerarchitects.com
I want to redesign all our Palace in the country, its does't tells our histories
All the best
Beautification as a class/subject should be taught to all students in Ghana. People need to learn to beautify their surrounding with what is natural around them.
Very educatative and inspiring, good job Nii Ayi..
Thank you
Nyi Aii, you bring so much to the table. A wonderful thing. We are seeing africa being changed with our own eye. Africa is the future and the future is africa. 😉
Such a humble man , I love his vibes ,
Nice one. Thank you for educating us.
Great to know all these people, inspiring our generation
Nii Ayi another excellent education.
Thank you
Thanks Nii Ayi, Africa Rising 😊
At last, i can boast of one of our owns. Africa!!!
Exactly
I so much love this interview and this man has alot to teach, pls try bring this great man on your platform again.
Well noted
Thanks Nii Ayi. Good to have featured the Leader of Ghanaian Architecture. Kindly enquire why in this day and age houses are being built without drain pipes to harvest the rain water causing a lot of erosion, flooding and chaos during the raining season!
Sure i will
The gentleman lives and breath architecture, extremely knowledgeable and a delight to listen too. Bless him for his vision and mission to help transform the narrative surrounding architecture from a historic and cultural perspective.
Another great piece brother, keep up the good work
Cheers
Nii great work. I am loving it this is good 👍 information and educational at the same time. Please kindly get him back this is what Ghanaians living abroad needs to learn and come back home to help. Thanks from Nevada.
Sure i will definitely bring him back
Great interview, thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great interview and topic. Glad to know we are having more and more people who are thinking like this. We are getting there bit by bit.
Africans can do it all,it's just a matter of collectively doing it for self.
Nice
Thanks
Great interview bro🇬🇭✊🏿🇬🇭. Nii please do hear from April Nego the RUclipsr?
Thank you. Yes i do hear from her. She is doing well.
@@niiayi Thank you Nii... I asked because I don't see her vlogs anymore.
@@samuelkobby5723 yeah. She will come back very soon
@@niiayi alright thanks.
So as a construction student, can I also learn architecture?
First guy here
Well done
great job Nii , can I get his contact?
Through email. Kakrich@gmail.com
Agoo how can we get his contact details Medaase
through email. Kakrich@gmail.com
Nii Ayi - Medaase
Nii Ayi you are a Star👏👏👏
@@oraclesofthebantupeople1055 Thank you
That's not how David Adjaye looks like.
The real problem of the African architecture is the availability of construction machinery, cranes, excavators, bulldozers etcc. We have the quality in terms of qualified architects not in the tools and machines to increase efficiency and productivity. The African governments must be serious and must start to tackle corruption and illicit transactions right now
These machineries are easily be bought today by entrepreneurs in the construction business... By computerizing everything...it will help trace all the transactions and reduce corruption...It only a matter of time...
bil ls the corruption is exactly to have to buy instead of acquiring the technology. Russia is ready to transfer the technology as well as some military ones. It is Time to put an end to all the lies and the hypocrisy as well as the corruption.
@
I am a great advocate of that... Manufacture machineries in Africa...But I don't believe in " technology transfer"...If Russia does it great...But Asians for example, go and get it in the West...through education, work experiences, etc... There are increasing number of Africans in top universities across the world working for top companies.... What are they doing...?
1-For example, Chinese diaspora played a significant role in the rise of China (even though the country is not a democratic country)...Many Asians in the West always take pictures and copy what they find beautiful and replicate them in their country of origin. I know many Asians in the US who start their companies in the US and then open branches of their companies in their countries of origin and they transfer slowly technologies... I heard a story of a company in Canada that went bankrupt and was bought by a Vietnamese-Canadian...Guess what he did? He moved the company back to Vietnam with all the machines and technologies and start operating...
2-People are building in the meantime...For Africa to really start manufacturing those machines...They should train more gifted young Africans and encourage many entrepreneurships in the following fields:
a) Mining Engineering (To explore and extract the minerals)
www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings-articles/university-subject-rankings/new-ranking-worlds-top-mining-engineering-schools
Many Africans should have their own mining companies operating in many African countries...
It great that Ghana has Ibrahim Mahama the largest indigenous-owned mining company in West Africa:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_Mahama_(businessman)
Ghana need more like him...
b) Metallurgical Engineering (To process, transform the minerals into metal etc...)
www.universities.com/programs/metallurgical-engineering-degrees
www.postgrad.com/courses/metallurgy/europe/
www.eng.tohoku.ac.jp/english/academics/studies/graduate/metallurgy.html
www.bcit.ca/study/programs/metalfabrication
c) Mechanical and Electrical (and electronics) Engineering (To make machine)
www.sculpteo.com/blog/2018/10/31/top-20-of-the-best-mechanical-engineering-schools-in-the-world/
www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2018/engineering-electrical-electronic
d) Automotive Engineering ( to make those machines and even cars etc... )
www.automotiveengineeringhq.com/automotive-engineering-schools/
bil ls you are nice to collaborate but about the rise of China it was certainly political and the state owned enterprises played a more significant role than the Diaspora I am sorry to insist on such a critical point.
You’re saying that their students came in the U.S and brought the technology back I am not sure it did happen so easily, remember that Hong Kong was still a brutish colony back in 1997 !!!!! That the Cold War ended just 7 years before as well as the Iron Curtain.
State owned companies and the COMMUNIST Party in China were VERY decisive in their policy of protecting the market and acquire the technologies by controlling everything INCLUDING the foreign companies profit margins etccc. You don’t understand Africa enough and the Africans, to make things work, the private sector is not the ultimate solution on the contrary, it is responsible of the present situation with very low level of industrialization and improvement of the way of life. I don’t shy away from accusing the corruption, the piracy from international firms more particularly from the West who look for any tactic and strategies and cunning to limit our capabilities. It’s the truth, it may hurt but it’s true. Without the state owned companies, there are very limit to move forward rapidly because you need state control to succeed the coordination of the different sectorial policies. You need the control the fiscal policy, improve the security and preserve what must be including the adverses.
China understood quickly that revolts would have succeed one after the other without addressing the issue of social justice.
@
Concerning China I said the diaspora " played a role"...It doesn't mean they did everything... You are right regarding the role of Chinese Government...
I am all for more companies, industries in Africa...whether is it State-owned or not...I support state-owned... But I also support and encourage locally owned private companies....specially in case the State fails in it role...
You highlighted the example of China with the political role of the government...That is good...But in the West 80-90% of the jobs creation, industries, factories, modern farms, the real estate developments and developments in general in most developed countries are done by private citizens (entrepreneurs, investors, intellectuals etc)...
1-In Nigeria the government has failed...they export crude oil...cheap...and import very expensive refined oil...A Nigerian entrepreneur/industrialist decided to stop that stupidity...
Dangote is completing right now the World largest oil refinery, petrochemical industry and fertilizer for agriculture...etc... See:
World's largest Crude distillation column, Dangote Refinery, Nigeria
ruclips.net/video/6v_0LnQTMd0/видео.html
That investment will help the country as a whole save billions in foreign exchange (used to import refined oil) and increase significantly the GDP of the country in the coming years...
2-See How one man company called Tata Built India: Two Centuries of Indian Business
ruclips.net/video/Gi80SEy0KL4/видео.html
The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan not chernobyl in Russia...
So what pisses me off is we have a world-renowned Ghanaian ARCHITECT called DAVID ADJEI who is not doing any projects in Ghana but in Europe? what does that tell you Ghanaians? does he have any projects in Ghana? I bet no, isn't that very sad? Not even visiting his own country to inspire architectural students, I am not surprised.
You're right
Bro u didn't do any research........... David adjaye is building our national cathedral, he is building the marine drive project, he built kofi Annan's residence in Ghana, he has built apartment complexes in cantonment, and many projects to come........ Oh and yh, he lives and works in GH now....... RESEARCH BRO........ Just 5mins..
@@josephotchere2329 Very interesting, thanks for the info ;)
joseph otchere
You’re very right and thank God that there are Positive Ghanaians like you who care about the country and are paying attention to what’s going on .That GMO g guy is himself the sort of Ghanaian he was talking about. He doesn’t live in Ghana and I’m very sure not building or contributing anything to the development of the country, but that doesn’t stop him from always commenting negatively.
I can’t stand negative people, they’re the bane of my life and I’m positive he’s one of these Ghanaians living abroad who try to dissuade friends from investing in Ghana ! I had friends like that but unlike them , I had foresight and I’m happy I ignored them.
Do your research he is doing some work in Ghana too, let's me ask you this question? If you are an artist do you want your product to be consume by Ghanians only or you want the world to be your market place?
Social Distancing ...... Please
What happened to the face mask?
I've heard of architects I .M Pei ,Renzo Piano ,Norman Forster ,Santiago Calatrava but not this guy.
Glad you are hearing of him now 😊