The Most Famous
ARCHITECTS from Tanzania
This page contains a list of the greatest Tanzanian Architects. The pantheon dataset contains 518 Architects, 1 of which were born in Tanzania. This makes Tanzania the birth place of the 54th most number of Architects behind Bangladesh, and Latvia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Tanzanian Architects of all time. This list of famous Tanzanian Architects is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. David Adjaye (b. 1966)
With an HPI of 32.44, David Adjaye is the most famous Tanzanian Architect. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Sir David Frank Adjaye (born 22 September 1966) is a Ghanaian-British architect. He is known for having designed many notable buildings around the world, including the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Adjaye was knighted in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to architecture. He is the recipient of the 2021 Royal Gold Medal, making him the first African recipient and one of the youngest recipients. He was appointed to the Order of Merit in 2022.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Tanzanian architects born between 1966 and 1966. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Tanzanian architects include David Adjaye.
