Diébédo Francis Kéré

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Francis Kéré (2019)
Primary school in Gando (photo 2007)
Interior of the primary school library in Gando (photo 2011)
Model of the Zhou Shan port project, China (photo 2012)

Diébédo Francis Kéré (* 1965 in Burkina Faso ) is an architect from Burkina Faso who has lived in Germany since 1985 and runs the international architecture firm Kéré Architecture in Berlin . Typical for Kéré's projects is the use of local materials, the use of traditional craft techniques, especially in wood construction, as well as an energy-saving, inexpensive and sustainable construction method.

Career

Kéré has thirteen siblings and grew up in a village in Burkino Faso. At the age of seven, his parents sent him to live with relatives in the nearest town so that he could go to school. After finishing school he began an apprenticeship in which he was trained in the traditional architecture of his homeland. At the age of 20, in 1985, thanks to a scholarship from the Carl Duisberg Society in collaboration with the German Development Service, his path led him to Germany, where he finished his carpenter's apprenticeship and completed his Abitur at an evening school. In 1995 he started studying architecture at the TU Berlin . Already in 2001, before completing his studies, he was awarded the highly endowed Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the design and construction of a school in his home village . After graduating, he founded his own Kéré Architecture office in 2004 .

He is primarily dedicated to socially and ecologically sustainable architectural projects in developing countries , starting with his home country Burkina Faso .

In addition to the Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2004, Kéré received the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture in 2009, the Swiss Architectural Award for the expansion of the school in Gando in 2010, the Marcus Prize for Architecture from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee in 2011 and the Holcim Global Award in gold for the project of a high school in Gando.

Kéré is the architect of the Africa Opera Village based on the ideas of director Christoph Schlingensief . In May 2012, the former Federal President of the Federal Republic Horst Köhler visited the project, of which he is the patron .

Kéré's work was shown in the Museum of Modern Art , in the exhibition Small Scale, Big Change, curated by Andres Lepik . New Architectures of Social Engagement presented, recently also in AFRITECTURE in the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Munich . In the winter of 2016/2017 he presented the first international solo exhibition of his overall architectural work Francis Kéré: Radically Simple in the same museum . He has accepted various teaching positions, including a. from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design . Until 2017 he taught at the Università della Svizzera italiana in Mendrisio. On October 1, 2017, he was appointed to the professorship "Architectural Design and Participation" at the Technical University of Munich . Most recently he taught at the Yale School of Architecture .

Prizes and awards

Exhibitions

Kéké has participated in various group exhibitions a. a. In 2011 at "Small scale big change" at MOMA in New York and in 2016, as well as in 2018 at the Venice Architecture Biennale .

Movie

In 2016 the Swiss photographer Daniel Schwartz shot the documentary film Francis Kéré: An Architect Between & The Design Between Screening , which was then shown at several architecture exhibitions.

literature

Web links

Commons : Diébédo Francis Kéré  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Architect Diébédo Francis Kéré Awarded UWM's Marcus Prize Archdaily, July 6, 2011, accessed on July 1, 2019
  2. ^ No opera far and wide in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from May 20, 2012, page 25
  3. ↑ "Small Scale, Big Change. New Architectures of Social Engagement"
  4. ^ Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Munich - Kéré
  5. ↑ Harvard Univerista pdf
  6. ^ Page of the Università della Svizzera italiana with information on Kéré
  7. ↑ tum.de: Prof. Francis Kéré accepts the offer at the Technical University of Munich
  8. ^ Francis Kéré. Retrieved on May 29, 2020 (English).
  9. ↑ Village school beats skyscrapers, Diébédo Kéré from the TU won the prestigious award Tagesspiegel.de, accessed on June 30, 2019
  10. ↑ Global Award for Sustainable Architecture. Retrieved June 3, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Schelling Architecture Prize
  12. ↑ [1] accessed on June 30, 2019
  13. ↑ Jenna McKnight: Kéré Architecture suspends colorful strings from ceiling of Philadelphia art museum De Zeen, June 28, 2016, accessed June 30, 2019
  14. ^ Francis Kéré. Radically Simple , Retrieved June 30, 2019
  15. ^ "Francis Kéré, primary elements", at ICO Museum , Metalocus.es
  16. ↑ Kéré at Coachella , World Architects, April 18, 2019, accessed on June 30, 2019
  17. ^ A b Architecture Film Soirée: “Francis Kéré: An Architect Between” , Harvard University, accessed July 1, 2019
  18. ^ El Museo ICO presenta "Francis Kéré. Elementos primarios" - Fundación ICO. Retrieved May 29, 2020 .


personal data
SURNAME Kéré, Diébédo Francis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kéré, Francis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Burkina Faso