Diébédo Francis Kéré named 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate
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Date: 16 March 2022
The 2022 Pritzker Prize Laureate is Diébédo Francis Kéré, Hon. FAIA, of Burkina Faso and Germany. Kéré is the first African recipient of the Pritzker Prize and Burkina Faso is the 23rd country to be represented amongst the Pritzker laureates. Initially trained as a carpenter, acclaim came early for Kéré. His first building,
The 2022 Pritzker Prize Laureate is Diébédo Francis Kéré, Hon. FAIA, of Burkina Faso and Germany. Kéré is the first African recipient of the Pritzker Prize and Burkina Faso is the 23rd country to be represented amongst the Pritzker laureates. Initially trained as a carpenter, acclaim came early for Kéré. His first building, the Gando Primary School, was completed in his hometown in 2001 while he was still a student at the Technische Universität Berlin. The project received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2004. The following year, he established Kéré Architecture, his Berlin-based firm, which he runs alongside the Kéré Foundation., a non-profit organisation that pursues projects in his native Gando.