A recipient of many awards, Kéré will officially be named Pritzker laureate at a ceremony in London later this year.
Yesterday, Burkina Faso’s Diébédo Francis Kéré made history by becoming the first Black man and African to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize since its inception in 1979. The international prize is regarded as architecture’s highest honour (or architecture’s Nobel prize) and is awarded each year to a living architect whose work has ‘produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity.’
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