Diébédo Francis Kéré

Diébédo Francis Kéré (* 1965 in Burkina Faso ) is a German architect who was born in Burkina Faso.

After studying architecture at the Technical University of Berlin, he founded his own office Kéré Architecture.

He will primarily be socially and ecologically sustainable architecture projects in developing countries, starting with his home country Burkina Faso.

For the construction of a school in his home village of Gando, he received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. More prices in 2009 of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture, the Swiss Architectural Award in 2010 for an extension of the School of Gando, in 2011, the Marcus Prize for Architecture, the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and 2012, the Global Holcim Award in Gold for the project school in Gando.

Kéré is also the designer of the Opera Village Africa director Christoph Schlingensief. In May 2012, the former President of the Federal Republic of Horst Köhler visited the project, whose patron he is.

His work was at the Museum of Modern Art, curated by Andres Lepik exhibition Small Scale, Big Change. New Architectures of Social Engagement presented recently in AFRITECTURE the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Munich. It adopted a number of teaching, most recently at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University.