Diébédo Francis Kéré

Biography
Diébédo Francis Kéré is an architect from Burkina Faso who has been living and working in Berlin since 1985, where he graduated in architecture from the Technical University of Berlin in 2004 and founded his own practice a year later. One of his first projects was a primary school in his hometown of Gando, for which he received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2004. The school was expanded in 2008 and a library was added in 2015. In 2012, he received the Holcim Award for Sustainable Construction and in 2022 he was awarded the Pritzker Prize. In 2021, he was a visiting professor at Bauhaus University in Weimar. In the winter semester of 2022, he served as a visiting professor (Louis I. Kahn Visiting Professor) at Yale University in New Haven.