Intersections: The Architecture of Victor Adegbite and Charles Polónyi in Ghana Exhibition

November 8, 2025 to April 12, 2026

The Wende Museum
10808 Culver Boulevard,
Culver City, CA 90230





On view through April 12, 2026, Intersections explores how architecture shaped the ambitions of newly independent Ghana during the 1960s.

​​The exhibition centers on two encounters. The first was the collaboration between Ghanaian architect Victor Adegbite and Hungarian architect Charles Polónyi who, in the wake of Ghana’s independence (1957), designed housing designs that responded to Ghana’s needs, means, and aspirations. Archival documents, analytical drawings, and contemporary photographs by Ghanaian photographer Eric Don-Arthur show how Adegbite’s and Polónyi’s buildings continue to structure life in Accra today. The second encounter takes place in the exhibition space between two archives, preserved by the architects’ daughters in the United States and Hungary. They reveal how the history of modern architecture is made possible by personal acts of memory and care.

Curators: Michael Dziwornu and Łukasz Stanek, in collaboration with Dana Salama
Design: Dana Salama
Archival Research: Michael Dziwornu and Łukasz Stanek
Model Fabrication: Brianna Westbrook
Contemporary Photography: Eric Don-Arthur
Film Concept and Interviews: Sarah Cheema
Film Production: Clara Ribot

Student researchers at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA: Arushi Chopra, Bam Davis, Sylvan Perlmutter, Dana Salama, Brianna Westbrook
Assistant researchers at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Accra, Ghana: Fred Fosu Agyarko, Albert Kudedor, Belinda Agyei

Archives:
Private archive of the Adegbite Family, USA
Private archive of the Polónyi Family, Hungary, safeguarded by the Hungarian Museum of Architecture and Monuments Protection Documentation Center,
Budapest Hungary
Public Records and Archives Administration Department, Accra, Ghana
Information Service Department, Accra, Ghana

Special thanks to: Alvina Adegbite, Valerie Adegbite-Calloway, and Anna Kántorné-Polónyi

Slideshow: Photos by Eric Don-Arthur | Drawing by Dana Salama | Archival material from Adegbite archive






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