Tag: Diébédo Francis Kéré

  • Diébédo Francis Kéré: Building With the Village

    Diébédo Francis Kéré: Building With the Village

    Diébédo Francis Kéré grew up in a village in Burkina Faso with no electricity and no school. He went to Berlin on a scholarship, became an architect, and came back to build one. What he discovered in that act — about materials, about community, about what architecture is actually for — has been reshaping the…