Diébédo Francis Kéré Wins the 2022 Pritzker Prize

Diébédo Francis Kéré has been awarded the 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize – one of the highest honours in Architecture.

Kéré was born in Gando in 1965 and studied architecture at the Technical University of Berlin. In 2005, while living in Berlin, he set up Kéré Architecture and has since designed a portfolio of notable works, including the 2017 Serpentine Pavilion, installations at Coachella, and a pavilion for the Tippet Rise Art Centre fashioned from a collection of tree trunks.

Kéré’s vocation to become an architect stems from a personal commitment to serve the community he grew up in and a belief in the transformative potential of beauty. He is known for his socially driven approach to architecture and his innovative construction strategies that combine modern engineering with traditional building techniques, particularly seen in projects in his home country of Burkina Faso.

Kéré has held professorships at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Yale School of Architecture and the Swiss Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio. Among his many accolades are the 2004 Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the 2017 Brunner Prize at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the 2021 Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture.