Diébédo Francis Kéré's education began in a hot, dark classroom with more than 100 other kids. He eventually went study woodwork and architecture in Germany —where he made it his mission to use architecture to give back.
He’s the first Black person to win architecture's highest honor in its 43-year history. Kéré says when he got the news, he was brought to tears.Kéré was born in a small village in Burkina Faso. No clean water, no electricity, no schools. At the age of 7, he left his community to become the first from there to attend school.
Kéré eventually went to Germany to study woodwork and then architecture. It was then that he made it his mission to use architecture to give back. And while Kéré’s designs can be found across Europe and the U.S, most of them exist in different African countries. They include schools and clinics, mostly in his native Burkina Faso.On creating brighter, cooler classrooms without additional energy sources in his village
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