Adedayo Jeremiah Adeyekun

Adedayo Jeremiah Adeyekun (born on 22nd February 1985) is a Nigerian Author, Architect, Artist, Urban Planner, Educator, and Preacher of the Word of God. He is registered with the Council of Architecture, New Delhi, the first African whose degree in Architecture was recognised to practice Architecture in India and a corporate member of the Indian Institute of Architects. He attended King’s College Lagos, Nigeria's First Federal Government College established by an act of British parliament and best secondary school reserved for the children of elites in Nigeria from 1996 to 2002. In 2003 at the age of 18years, he was encouraged by his father to study Architecture at the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), a top-ranking university in Nigeria where he graduated with the degree of B. Tech in Architecture with Honours (5years) in October 2008. He also studied German as a foreign language with Deutsch University Language School affiliated to Ludwig Maximilians University; Munich, Germany at A2 level and Deutsch Dexway Akademie Language School, Madrid, Spain at B1 level, but the course was delivered in Valencia and completed with Distinction (72.13%). His intention was to become the first Nigerian to obtain a professional Master of Architecture (Diplom-Ingenieur) Degree with German as the language of instruction and his admission was granted in 2014 at the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences in Spittal/Drau, Austria as the first African whose admission will be successful in the university, but the decision to study there was not accepted by God. In 2015 - 2017, he pursued the degree of Master of Planning (M. Plan) with specialisation in Urban and Regional Planning from Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak and secured a silver medal (2nd in the Class of 20 Students), thereby making him the first African to receive a medal in the Faculty of Urban and Town Planning. He obtained a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering in 2021 with a specialization in Building Technology and Construction Management and submitted a dissertation titled: Management of Building Materials and Construction Waste on Project Sites: A Study of Selected Construction Projects in Gurugram, Haryana from Jagannath University, Bahadurgarh, Delhi – NCR, Haryana, India. He has demonstrated a lot of commitments to professional practice in Architecture for more than 16 years with the execution of about 47 buildings in Nigeria and India. In 2009, he received the award for the Most Creative and Outstanding Corp Member of the Year 2009/2010 for his contribution towards the development of the Core Rural Area of Kanke LGA, Plateau State, Nigeria, and thereby became the first Corp Member to design and construct a building at the council since the establishment in 1996. He received a medal in April 2018 for the presentation of a paper titled: Technology and Management Options towards the use of Fly Ash in Civil Engineering. He was inspired by Prof. P. K. Patel, a Professor Emeritus of Architecture from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (Oldest Technical Institution of Asia), to write books rather than writing a research paper of 5 – 10 pages. His research interest is spread across the discipline of Architecture, Planning, and Civil Engineering, and as a researcher; he has more than 20 research papers and 7 written books to his credit. In 2019, Jeremiah’s paper titled: An Assessment of Poor Communication between the Contractor and Subcontractor was selected 2nd out of more than 500 submissions for the International Conference on Architecture and Civil Engineering in Taipei, Taiwan. In December 2019, Adedayo presented a paper at the 5th Asia Colour Association Conference (ACA) in Nagoya, Japan and thereby making him the only one whose paper was accepted across the whole of India and entire South Asia to present a paper at Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan. He was also the only African who presented a paper at the conference. More than 400 people were present. In 2021, Adedayo repeated the same record of being the only person in South Asia and Africa whose research paper was selected for the 6th Asia Colour Association Conference held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Only 43 papers were approved by the committee and he was the 16th person to present a paper titled: The Elements and Principles of Art. On the 18th of September 2020, Adedayo became the first to publish 7 books as a Ph.D. student in India. In 2016, Adedayo was appointment as an assistant professor in the faculty of Architecture, Savera College of Architecture, Gurugram affiliated to Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak up to July 2016 and in October 2016, he was promoted to the position of an associate professor.