Isaac Babalola Adekule was born in Nigeria and attended the Seventh-day Adventist Central School in Erunmu, Oyo State. He studied Architecture at Ahmadu Bello University, in Zaria, graduating in 1965, in first place in his year. He then travelling to the UK and enrolling in the 1966-67 ‘Educational Building’ course run by the Architectural Association’s (AA) Department of Development and Tropical Studies, in London. By 1969, he had returned to Nigeria and was running his own practice, ‘Adekunle Associates’, based in Ibadan. He also appears to have worked for the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, in Lagos (1970), also establishing a new practice in Ibadan, c1972, under the name of ‘Rational Architects.’ He appears to have retained close ties to the Seventh-day Adventist church and was responsible for the design and construction of a new church on the site of his alma mater at Erunmu, from 1971. It is also reported that Adekunle produced the designs for the majority of Seventh-day Adventist churches in the Western State of Nigeria, from the 1970s, providing his services free of charge. Little is yet known to us regarding his subsequent career, beyond the fact that he was a Board Member of the Ajoda New Town Development Corporation from c1977-78 preparing a scheme to develop a satellite town for Ibadan.
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