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Quotes from Francis Kéré — Diébédo Francis Kéré

b. 1965

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7 quotes

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)

In the West we are spoiled. We don't know what we have...

Francis Kéré (2021)

You may laugh, but... a little school in Gando is, in the eyes of my community, maybe the same... [as] how they build a high rise in New York... very inspiring.

Francis Kéré (2021)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Diébédo Francis Kéré (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.