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Architecture and Humanity | The Conscious Urbanism of Kunlé Adeyemi

Makoko Floating School, designed by Kunlé Adeyemi of NLÉ
Makoko Floating School

African architect Kunlé Adeyemi expresses a deep passion for social progress through his ground-breaking designs and urban planning

NLÉ is an architecture, design, and urbanism practice for developing cities and communities.

Such is the elevator pitch on the website homepage of Amsterdam-based NLÉ, founded by Kunlé Adeyemi, a native African architect who’s work reveals a deep mission to serve communities in need, and humanity as a whole, through conscious architecture and design.

I am neither an architect, nor an architecture critic. But I am moved by exceptional design on all

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