Why Pritzker-winning architect Francis Kéré keeps returning to his first passion: schools
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Having grown up in a village without a school, Diébédo Francis Kéré, who was just awarded the Pritzker Prize for architecture, has been promoting education for more than 20 years.
Diébédo Francis Kéré grew up in a small village in Burkina Faso with no electricity, no clean water, no public transportation, and no educational facility. So when he returned home from studying architecture in Berlin, the first thing he did was build a school.