I'm Michel Martin. The Pritzker Architecture Prize is the most prestigious award in the field, and for the first time ever, that prize has gone to a Black architect and an architect from Africa. His ...

Keré’s Serpentine Pavilion in Montana. Photo: courtesy of Tippet Rise/Iwan Baan. Photo by Iwan Baan. I met Francis Keré one summer morning in 2019 on a ranch in Montana. Coppery light filtered through ...

Diébédo Francis Kéré grew up in a small village in Burkina Faso with no electricity, no clean water, no public transportation, and no educational facility. So when he returned home from studying ...

Diébédo Francis Kéré, architect, educator and social activist, has been selected as the 2022 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, announced Tom Pritzker, Chairman of The Hyatt Foundation, ...

When he was 7 years old, Francis Kéré left his family home to attend school because his village, Gando in Burkina Faso, did not have one of its own. Thirteen years later he moved to Germany on a ...