When he was 7, Diébédo Francis Kéré left his native village of Gando in Burkina Faso at the insistence of his father so that he might learn to read and write. Gando, about 115 miles southeast of the ...
Moderating the dialogue between the traditional and the modern in the search for a new architecture for Africa. By Francis Kéré Mr. Kéré is an architect. This personal reflection is part of a series ...
Diébédo Francis Kéré, an architect whose playful ephemeral commissions have graced Kensington Gardens and the Coachella Valley and whose low-cost, technically innovative permanent structures have had ...