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.

An unlikely path led Diébédo Francis Kéré to architecture. Now, his innovations have earned him the 2022 Pritzker Prize — the first African to earn the award.

Francis Kéré, whose Serpentine Pavilion installation was on display in Madrid in 2018. His devotion to his community helped earn him the Pritzker Prize, the jury said.

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

Diébédo Francis Kéré completed this school in his hometown of Gando, Burkina Faso, in 2001, with help from the local community. The bricks were made on site from local clay mixed with concrete.

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 ...