Contrairement à beaucoup d'autres architectes, Diébédo Francis Kéré (né en 1965 au Burkina
Faso) a fait de l'aspect social et culturel de ses constructions, l'un des principaux vecteurs de son travail. Il ne s'est pas uniquement fait un nom avec la construction du centre d'art de Christoph Schlingensief mais a également reçu d'autres prix à la suite de projets conçus dans son pays natal, le Burkhina Faso. Parmi ceux-ci, citons le prix Aga Khan en 2004. Ses structures reflètent à la fois la rigueur de son apprentissage à l'Université Technique de Berlin et l'héritage des techniques de construction traditionnelles du Burkhina Faso.
First monograph on the recipient of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture
Unlike
almost any other architect, Diébédo Francis Kéré (*1965 in Burkina
Faso) stands for the association of constructive, social, and cultural
aspects of building. He made a name for himself not only with his
designs for Christoph Schlingensief's Opera Village Africa. He has
received numerous international awards, primarily for his building
projects in his native country of Burkina Faso— including the 2004 Aga
Khan Award for Architecture. His structures join his formal training at
the Technische Universität Berlin with the traditional building methods
of Burkina Faso. In doing so, he places local social and historical
needs at the center of his design concepts. The innovative thing about
this work is: he relies on the inhabitants. They are trained to become
professionals and thus the constructors of their own future. This first
monograph on his extensive oeuvre provides unique insight into the
creative work of this outstanding architect and renders visible the fact
that architecture not only revolves around buildings, but always around
people as well.
Exhibition: Architekturmuseum TU München in der Pinakothek der Moderne, starting November
