David Adjaye on the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.

At a recent talk in Toronto, the newly knighted architect shared his thoughts on a most important commission.
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"I wanted to see if we could make a museum that wasn’t about just making another structure, or mimicking the architectural history of Washington, but to see if we could introduce another narrative that was what I call a kind of bedfellow, but of a different trajectory.

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