African architect becomes the first black recipient of the Pritzker prize – the Nobel prize for Architecture

Kéré outside his Serpentine Pavilion in Hyde Park, London When Francis Kéré was seven he left home to go to school because his mud-hut village did not have one. Almost 30 years later he returned to rectify that, designing the building that would launch a career now recognised by the equivalent of a Nobel prize. The […]

African architect becomes the first black recipient of the Pritzker prize – the Nobel prize for Architecture
Kéré outside his Serpentine Pavilion in Hyde Park, London When Francis Kéré was seven he left home to go to school because his mud-hut village did not have one. Almost 30 years later he returned to rectify that, designing the building that would launch a career now recognised by the equivalent of a Nobel prize. The […]