David Adjaye’s RA Summer Exhibition display takes on the material world

David Adjaye’s first attempt at curating the architecture room at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition last year was derailed by Covid-disrupted timings. This year, however, he has seen it through, creating a calm and harmoniously arranged display of more than 100 exhibits. So many of the exhibits are enigmatic but can still be enjoyed as evocative objects – such as Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios’ clay study model of the Aga Khan Academy, which completes next year in Dhaka, and, in particular, Dominic Walker’s Chapel of the Wind, created in walnut, cotton and pigmented plaster. The exhibition runs from 22 September 2021 to 2 January 2022 at the Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly, London.