The earth-block building in the Senegalese capital is the first purpose-built Goethe-Institut location in the 75-year history of the German cultural organization.
‘We wanted to take the sustainability of the building to the extreme,’ says Francis Kéré of the timber structure designed in cooperation with Austrian wood specialists HK Architekten.
Tickets are still available for Architectural Record’s Innovation conference, where the 2022 Pritzker Prize winner will give the keynote, his only public presentation in the U.S. this year.
Kéré, the first Black architect to receive the Pritzker, pursues a rigorous social mission while creating buildings of rich materiality and expressive force.
Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Beartooth Mountains, a surprisingly intimate structure of vertical pine logs offers a serene place of respite for visitors to the arts center.
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