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Francis Kéré
1965– · Burkinabè architect · Burkina Faso/Germany
Bio
Uses local materials, community participation and climate-responsive design to create socially grounded architecture.
Key works
- Gando Primary School
- Serpentine Pavilion
THE RETHINK
Francis Kéré helps us rethink architecture as more than the production of buildings: their work shows how decisions about structure, space, materials, context or public life can change what a society considers possible.
Editorial metadata
- Social description
- Francis Kéré changed architecture through ideas, buildings and approaches that still shape how we understand space.
- Focus keywords
- Francis Kéré, architect, architecture history, architectural influence, Rethink Society
- Blogger labels
- Architecture · Architects · Biography · Rethink Society · Postwar & Regional Modernisms · Burkina Faso/Germany
- Hashtags
- #RethinkSociety #Architecture #Architects #ArchitectureHistory #Design
- Image status
- Image rights verified — Astrid Eckert, licence CC BY-SA 3.0, checked on its source file page.