Overview
Kunlé Adeyemi is an architect, designer and development researcher who founded NLÉ in 2010. Before establishing the practice, he worked at OMA on projects including the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, Qatar National Library and Prada Transformer in Seoul.
His work at NLÉ includes Makoko Floating School in Lagos and the subsequent Makoko Floating System. These projects form part of African Water Cities, the practice’s research into urbanisation and climate change. NLÉ received the Silver Lion at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale for MFS II – Waterfront Atlas, the second iteration of Makoko Floating School.
Other projects listed by the practice include Black Rhino Academy in Karatu, Tanzania, and the Serpentine Summer House in London. Adeyemi’s academic appointments have included the 2017 Aga Khan Design Critic in Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design and a visiting lectureship at Princeton University in 2019.
