Professor Adeyemi started his primary school education in 1943 in the railway town of Jebba, now in Kogi State. His primary school education was spread over four other towns; the St. Mark’s School, Offa; the African Bethel School, Ebute-meta, Lagos; the All Saints School in his home-town of lyin-Ekiti and the Emmanuel School, Ado-Ekiti thus ending his primary school education in 1950.

Between 1952 and 1956, he attended the then famous Christ’s School in Ado Ekiti and passed the West African School Certificate Examination in Division One in 1956. By October 1958, after a brief spell of teaching and working as draughtsman in a Government Ministry, he gained admission to then Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology (NCAST) Zaria to read Architecture. He was offered the Federal Government Scholarship. In 1962, the NCAST in Zaria became the Ahmadu Bello University and in 1963 was one of the first graduates of the University. He was in fact, the number 1 (one) graduate on the list of graduating students.

On graduation, he worked as an Architect in the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing in Lagos and was later transferred to Kaduna as the Resident Architect to all federal projects in the north. As a young and ambitious man with a clear vision of his future, he shunned the money attractions of that office and proceeded to the Columbia University, New York City on in-service; to do a Master’s degree in Architecture. From that Ivy-League University, he obtained a Master’s degree in 1965 and nine years later obtained a doctorate degree (Ph.D) of the New York University in 1974.

He joined the services of his Alma Mater in September 1969 and had a meteoric rise from Lecturer through Senior Lecturer and Professor. of Architecture in 1975, thus becoming the first African Professor of Architecture in Africa, South of the Sahara. For twelve years, from 1974 to 1986, Professor Adeyemi held the Office of the Head of Department of Architecture, Ahmadu Bello University, the longest-serving Head of Department of that University. He became also, the first Nigerian Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Design of the same University (1976-1 980).

In 1986, he transferred his services to the Federal University of Technology, Akure where he was invited to set up a new School of Environmental Technology. In 1988, he became the Deputy Vice Chancellor and still occupying that position, was appointed by the NUC as Chairman of its National Monitoring Committee on Grants to Federally-Funded Universities. Professor Adeyemi was also appointed the first Chairman of the Board of Education, Research and Technology of the Africa Union of Architects and for an upward of twelve years, a member of the Architects

Architects, a Fellow of the Architect/Educators in Nigeria and an Associate of the American Institute of Planners (AIP).

He was appointed Ag. Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology Akure in 1999 by the Obasanjo Administration to effect changes in the University’s Governance, a post he held until his retirement in January, 2002. He was former Dean of the College of Science and Technology of this University and is currently the Head of Department of Architecture. He was appointed, by the Board of Regents of Covenant University, its distinguished Professor in 2007. His former students once made a gift presentation of a Mercedes 200 Car in appreciation of his love and services.