David Olatunde Aradeon (born 7 November 1933) is a

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architect, urban planner and curator.

Career

David Aradeon was born in

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, and commenced his Architectural education in 1959 at

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in New York. After his graduation in 1966, he worked for three different architectural firms in New York and then returned to

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. In 1968, he was awarded a three-year Ford Fellowship to study the human settlements in western and

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. At the

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, he was a lecturer in the Department of Architecture, where he was appointed Professor in 1979. Aradeon founded the Sankore Institute for African Environment and Development in

, which he still heads today. He co-founded the non-profit organization ''Build with Earth'' for the promotion of Building with earth. In 1977, he curated the African Architectural Technology Exhibition for the Festival of

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Cultures in

. He was curator of the exhibition "Views of

" and at the ifa galleries in Stuttgart 2004-2005 Berlin has been shown, In 2007, his research focused on Movement of Forms, Antecedents of Afro-Brazilian Spaces. Aradeon is licensed as an Architect in

. In addition to his academic work as a lecturer, he was also the founding partner of the architectural firm; Studio 4 Associates shown at Documenta 12 in Kassel He designed, among other projects, residential buildings in

Ibadan Ibadan (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Oyo State, in Nigeria. It is the third-largest city by population in Nigeria after Lagos and Kano, with a total population of 3,649,000 as of 2021, and over 6 million people within its me ...

and

, the elementary school buildings for the

Women Society, the entire Campus of the

Lagos State University Lagos State University, also known as LASU, is located in Ojo, with sub-campuses at Ikeja and Epe both towns in Lagos State, Nigeria. The university was established in 1983 by the enabling law of Lagos State, for the advancement of learning ...

(1988), the showrooms and offices of the National Council of Arts and Culture in Iganmu,

, the auditorium of the

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and the National Cultural Complex in Abuja (2003). Aradeon lives and works in

Selected publications

* * * Zusammen mit Siyanbola Tomori und Ajato Gandonu: Medium and small size settlement in development strategy, Porto Novo region, Nigeria. ''Towards alternative settlement strategies: the role of small and intermediate centers in the development process.'' Heritage Publishers, New York 1980.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Aradeon, David Living people 1933 births Architects from Lagos Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation alumni Academic staff of the University of Lagos Urban designers Nigerian expatriates in the United States Nigerian curators Nigerian urban planners Architecture educators 20th-century Nigerian architects 21st-century Nigerian architects Recipients of the Nigerian National Order of Merit Award

Career

Selected publications

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