Diébédo Francis Kéré Quotes

b. 1965

Diébédo Francis Kéré (born 10 April 1965) is a Burkinabé-German architect, recognized for creating innovative works that are often sustainable and collaborative in nature. In 2022, he became the first native African to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

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The problem... is how to explain drawings and engineering to people who are neither able to read or write.

Francis Kéré (2014)

Things are growing fast in Burkina Faso. ...[P]eople come to city... to settle around structures. ...[I]n twenty years time this will be a city centre.

Francis Kéré (2021)

I could achieve this even using... clay bricks.., seen as poor people['s] construction material.

Francis Kéré (2021)

It is creating an identity. People know how the building was made, and they have been part of the building, but they also earn money... to feed their family.

Francis Kéré (2021)

I realize... that education is like light... what you can see in the night.

Francis Kéré (2021)