An In-Depth Look at Pritzker Prize Winner Diébédo Francis Kéré's Radical Approach
Ambling through the grounds of Berlin’s defunct Tempelhof airport late last summer, the architect Diébédo Francis Kéré looked out across the sweeping landscape. Germany was still divided when Kéré arrived there in 1985, from his village in Burkina Faso.
Kéré was born about a hundred miles east of Ouagadougou, in Gando; at the time, the country was known as the Republic of Upper Volta. When his scholarship expired in 1988, Kéré made the decision to stay in Germany.
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