New Look Among Pritzker Winners
This year’s Pritzker Architecture Prize, the world’s most prestigious honor for design, is going to Diébédo Francis Kéré – also known as Francis Kéré – a citizen of both Burkina Faso and Germany. There’s no overlooking the way he differs from all 44 preceding annual winners. He is the first Black so honored. It turns out there are many compelling reasons, other than diversity, for Kéré’s selection. His works are exceptional for their embodiment of the social and environmental virtues now being recognized as essential to superior architecture. And his design has been focused on community projects, with buildings of exemplary form and detail constructed within typically limited means. Kéré’s unusual career path led him to become a social and environmental activist as well as a designer. Born in 1965 in Gando, Burkina Faso, as the eldest son of his village chief, he was the first in his family to …
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