Adekunle Adeyemi was born and raised in Kaduna, in northern Nigeria, and studied and started his early career in Lagos.
[1] Adeyemi is an alumnus of Federal Government Academy, Suleja, Nigeria's school for the education of gifted children, where he was a member of the inaugural class that graduated in 1992.
[3] At that university, Adeyemi investigated with Peter Eisenman, the rapid urbanization and the role of market economies in developing cities of the Global South, focusing on Lagos.
[4][5] After that, Adeyemi joined OMA (The Office for Metropolitan Architecture) in 2002,[6] where he was Senior Associate and worked for about nine years alongside its award-winning founder Rem Koolhaas.
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