Di\u00e9b\u00e9do Francis K\u00e9r\u00e9 has been announced the 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate. The\u00a0architect, educator and social activist, who was born in\u00a0Gando, Burkina Faso and is currently\u00a0based in Berlin, Germany, has distinguished himself in his field for his sensitive, clever and considered designs that offer inventive and important solutions to key...
, have been instrumental in making him a leading voice in architecture today – leading up to the coveted 2022 Pritzker Prize win.
Not that this means that the architect is ready to rest on his laurels. ‘I am hoping to change the paradigm, push people to dream and undergo risk. It is not because you are rich that you should waste material. It is not because you are poor that you should not try to create quality,’ says Kéré. ‘Everyone deserves quality, everyone deserves luxury, and everyone deserves comfort. We are interlinked and concerns in climate, democracy and scarcity are concerns for us all.
The Pritzker Prize panel praised Kéré’s work for its intelligent use of local materials, site-specific approach, connection with nature and support of marginalised communities. ‘Francis Kéré is pioneering architecture – sustainable to the Earth and its inhabitants – in lands of extreme scarcity. He is equally architect and servant, improving upon the lives and experiences of countless citizens in a region of the world that is at times forgotten,’ said Thomas Pritzker, chairman of The Hyatt Foundation, which supports the award.
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