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Hear Pritzker Laureate Francis Kéré in Person in New York

October 18, 2022

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.

Review of 'Momentum of Light'

By Francis Kéré and Iwan Baan

Josephine Minutillo

February 14, 2022

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Architect Francis Kéré revisits the paradoxical world of his childhood in Burkina Faso with photographer Iwan Baan, where pitch balck interiors contrast with an outdoors drenched in the sub-Saharan sun.

Lycée Schorge by Kéré Architecture

Koudougou, Burkina Faso

Jenna M. McKnight

January 1, 2017

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An innovative use of local materials engenders an inspiring setting for learning in Burkina Faso.

Francis Kéré Envisions House of Parliament for Burkina Faso

The award-winning architect, who was born in the West African country, has proposed a dramatic new capitol to replace the former one destroyed during a 2014 revolt.

Jenna M. McKnight

October 11, 2016

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In late 2014, citizens of Burkina Faso revolted against the country’s dictatorial leader, President Blaise Compaoré, and set fire to the parliament house, leaving it a charred ruin in the capital city of Ouagadougou.

Carme Pinós Wins 2016 Berkeley-Rupp Architecture Professorship and Prize

Alex Klimoski

September 14, 2016

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The Spanish designer will lead a graduate studio at Berkeley conducting research in Burkina Faso.

Center for Health Care and Social Promotion

Just What the Doctor Ordered: Diébédo Francis Kéré's latest project brings much-needed medical care to a remote area in Burkina Faso.

Jenna M. McKnight

August 16, 2015

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Diébédo Francis Kéré's latest project brings much-needed medical care to a remote area in Burkina Faso.

Bringing it All Back Home: Diébédo Francis Kéré’s Atelier

A firsthand look at how Diébédo Francis Kéré has used his architecture to transform his rural village.

Jenna M. McKnight

June 16, 2014

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It was late morning in Gando, a rural community in the West African country of Burkina Faso, and the fierce sun was beating down on the arid, ochre-colored landscape.

Opera House for Africa

Asad Syrkett

August 16, 2012

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The late German film and theater director Christoph Schlingensief convinced Berlin-based architect and Burkina Faso native Di'b'do Francis K'r' to build the Opera House for Africa, a music-education complex, in the landlocked country known as a center of African film and music.

Three Public Projects by Diébédo Francis Kéré

William Hanley

March 16, 2012

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The village of Gando is more than a three-hour drive from the capital of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, on occasionally unpaved roads that thread through a landscape of scorched orange dust and isolated trees buffeted by sub-Saharan winds.

Secondary School

Jenna M. McKnight

January 16, 2011

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In 2001, while still a student at Dano, Burkina Faso the Berlin Technical University, Diébédo Francis Kéré completed his first project: a small primary school in Gando, his native village in Burkina Faso.