The work of architect Kéré “feeds the imagination with an afro-futurist vision,” according to his firm’s website. Earlier this week, Diébédo Francis Kéré was awarded the prestigious Pritzker ...
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 currently ...
Diébédo Francis Kéré grew up in a small village in Burkina Faso with no electricity, no clean water, no public transportation, and no educational facility. So when he returned home from studying ...
Even if you did not make it to the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival for this, its 20th year, you may have seen the work of Diébédo Francis Kéré. Kéré was born in Gando, a tiny village in the ...
At the beginning of the 20th century, the traditional masks of sub-Saharan Africa motivated artists such as Picasso and Matisse to remake the human form. A century later, these masks have become a ...
Construction began at the Goethe Institute in Dakar, designed by Kéré Architecture. The project is the first purpose-built space for the German cultural association and exchange centre in its over 60 ...
Diébédo Francis Kéré's first-ever architecture project was building a school in his hometown of Gando, a remote village in Burkina Faso in West Africa. And on Tuesday, the Burkinabé architect received ...
Diébédo Francis Kéré, architect, educator and social activist, has been selected as the 2022 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, announced Tom Pritzker, Chairman of The Hyatt Foundation, ...
Earlier this week, Diébédo Francis Kéré was awarded the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize, making him the first Black architect to win in its 40-year history, according to NPR. According to the ...
A Burkina Faso-born architect made history this week after receiving the prestigious Pritzker Prize, largely regarded as architecture’s highest honor, Diébédo Francis Kéré, who’s now based in Berlin, ...