Unlike almost any other architect, Diebedo Francis Kere (*1965 in
Burkina Faso) stands for the association of constructive, social,
and cultural aspects of building. He made a name for himself not
only with his designs for Christoph Schlingensief's Opera Village
Africa. He has received numerous international awards, primarily
for his building projects in his native country of Burkina Faso-
including the 2004 Aga Khan Award for Architecture. His structures
join his formal training at the Technische Universitat Berlin with
the traditional building methods of Burkina Faso. In doing so, he
places local social and historical needs at the center of his
design concepts. The innovative thing about this work is: he relies
on the inhabitants. They are trained to become professionals and
thus the constructors of their own future. This first monograph on
his extensive oeuvre provides unique insight into the creative work
of this outstanding architect and renders visible the fact that
architecture not only revolves around buildings, but always around
people as well. (German edition ISBN 978-3-7757-4216-0)Exhibition:
Architekturmuseum TU Munchen in der Pinakothek der Moderne,
starting November
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