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Francis Kéré wins the 2022 Pritzker Prize

By 2022-03-16T07:00:00

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Architect and educator is first black winner in Pritzker’s 44-year history

Diébédo Francis Kéré has won the 2022 Pritzker Prize.

He is the first black architect to be awarded the prize, which is now in its 44th year.

Kéré, who was born in a remote village in Burkina Faso in 1965, moved to Berlin aged 20 where he studied architecture and now spends half his time. A dual national, much of his built work is in west Africa but he designed London’s Serpentine Pavilion in 2017.

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