Francis Kéré's temporary pavilion in London's Hyde Park, a prestigious assignment given to a different world-famous architect every year. Niklas Halle'n/AFP via Getty Images.

Diébédo Francis Kéré has won the 2022 Pritzker Prize. The judges highlighted the architect's ingenious approach to sustainability, which embraces passive techniques like natural ventilation to ...

Diébédo Francis Kéré, whose structures have had an outsized impact in his native Burkina Faso, is the 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize winner ...

Diébédo Francis Kéré is still processing his historic win of the Pritzker Prize. He’s the first Black person to win architecture's highest honor in its 43-year history. Kéré says when he ...

When he was 7, Diébédo Francis Kéré left his native village of Gando in Burkina Faso at the insistence of his father so that he might learn to read and write. Gando, about 115 miles southeast ...

Diébédo Francis Kéré has become the first Black and first African architect to ever receive architecture’s highest honor, the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Born in Burkina Faso in 1965 and ...

Francis Kéré becomes the first African architect to design the Serpentine Pavilion, in 2017, with a structure inspired by Burkina Faso.

The Francis Kéré-designed Xylem at Tippet Rise Art Center in Montana, 2019. (Iwan Baan/Tippet Rise) Xylem is Francis Kéré's latest exploration of raw materials and a collaboration with ...

When he was 7 years old, Francis Kéré left his family home to attend school because his village, Gando in Burkina Faso, did not have one of its own. Thirteen years later he moved to Germany on a ...