Kéré Architecture

Kéré Architecture is the Berlin practice founded in 2005 by Francis Kéré, the Burkinabè architect and 2022 Pritzker Prize laureate, built on a dual focus on design and social commitment. Local resources, participatory construction and climate-conscious detailing shape work in regions mostly uncharted by contemporary practice. His first building, the Gando Primary School, was realised with his village’s residents and won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2004.

Working from Berlin with a team in Burkina Faso, the studio moves from civic infrastructure to temporary installations: the Burkina Faso National Assembly, the Lycée Schorge school, the 2017 Serpentine Pavilion, Xylem at the Tippet Rise Art Centre and the Goethe-Institut Dakar. Teaching at TU München, Harvard GSD and Yale feeds a practice treating building as knowledge sharing.