He has shown us how locality becomes a universal possibility. But Kr chose a different path. "This is how I'm trying to translate the work I have started in Gando to structures that present national pride.". Born in Gando, Burkina Faso in 1965 and based in Berlin, Germany, Francis Kr works towards improving the lives and experiences of countless citizens in a region of the world that is at times forgotten as Pritzker explains. We are interlinked and concerns in climate, democracy, and scarcity are concerns for us all. Francis Kr, 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize Winner. Following this success, other primary, secondary, postsecondary, and medical facilities followed throughout Burkina Faso, Kenya, Mozambique, and Uganda. Announced today by Tom Pritzker, Chairman of The Hyatt Foundation, Francis Kr is the 51st winner of the award founded in 1979, succeeding Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal. He raised the money by fundraising internationally and made sure that locals were hired and given training. This was my first sense of architecture. Francis Kr, 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize Winner. Indeed, it is to architecture what the Nobel Prize is to literature. What links these two works of architecture is Krs use of indigenous materials, most notably clay, which he used to make thick walls. Most importantly, perhaps, was that the village now has a solid, well-ventilated space where students could learn. In the Serpentine pavilion, for example, he successfully translated into a universal visual language and in a particularly effective way, a long-forgotten essential symbol of primordial architecture worldwide: the tree. But while these national-scale projects differ in size from the architect's schools and health centers, his approach remains rooted in localism. And theres no bigger award than the annual Pritzker Architecture Prize. I remember the room where my grandmother would sit and tell stories with a little light, while we would huddle close to each other and her voice inside the room enclosed us, summoning us to come closer and form a safe place. Dibdo Francis Kr has been declared the 2022 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the most prestigious award in architecture. It is not because you are rich that you should waste material. "There's a big disconnection," Kr said. We have to fight to create the quality that we need to improve peoples lives. Francis Kr, 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize Winner. Having further transformed his village and other communities across Africa with his socially minded designs, the 56-year-old has now been named among the greats of his profession. The school, Gando Primary School, is a fine example of his approach to architecture that puts special focus on the local conditions. With this prize, the Burkina Faso-born architect will receive $100,000 and a bronze medallion. Kr employs large numbers of Burkinab citizens (in 2020, his country ranked 20th in the world for the lowest GDP per capita) with jobs in carpentry, welding, brick making, masonry, and painting, ensuring that the local community benefits as much from his projects as visitors do. 
The Lyce Schorge Secondary School, also in Burkina Faso, builds on the design principles set out in the Gando Primary School and once again focuses on simple and sensible approaches to the local conditions, such as passive cooling, the creation of open airy spaces, and the use of local materials. Kr was born in 1965 in Gando, Burkina Faso, as the eldest son of the village chief where he grew up with no electricity or access to clean drinking water. What is the right approach to the practice when working against all odds? Should it be modest and risk succumbing to adverse circumstances? They have presence without pretense and an impact shaped by grace. "I grew up in a community where there was no kindergarten, but where community was your family," explained Kr. Inside the pavilion, rainwater is funneled into the center, highlighting water scarcity that is experienced worldwide. Village Opera, a cultural project currently being constructed in Laongo, Burkina Faso. 
The 44th Pritzker Prize ceremony, honoring 2022 Laureate, Dibdo Francis Kr, will be held at the Great Hall of the newly opened Marshall Building, The London School of Economics and Political Science (London, United Kingdom), designed by Grafton Architects, led by Farrell and McNamara. On a larger scale and more architecturally ambitious than his educational work, it will consist of a stepped and pyramidal overall form, and host a 127-person assembly hall on the interior, while encouraging informal gatherings on its greenery filled exterior. Architect Dibdo Francis Kr, winner of the 2022 Pritzker Prize. He is a humanitarian, a man with an architectural vocabulary that spans the globe while staying singularly focused on the needs of his home village. Ad Choices, Born in Burkina Faso, the 56-year-old architect has amassed major awards for his sustainable designs in buildings from Mali to China, Brad Pitt Buys Historic Seaside Bungalow for $40 Million, This 350-Square-Foot Silver Lake Shed Became an Expressive ADU, Architect Germane Barnes Mines the Nexus of Race and Design, The winner of the 2021 Rome Prize talks with, Inside Renzo Pianos Latest Designa Residential Tower Built on New Land in Monaco, The reclamation project will transform six hectares of sea into coastland, while providing public access to the best views along the water, These 9 Design Museums Are the Best in the World, Featuring a mix of traditional and contemporary exhibitions, youll want to add these institution to your bucket list of places to visit, Step Inside 8 Refined Farmhouses That Are Undeniably Modern. Or does ambition run the risk of being out of place and of resulting in architecture of mere wishful thinking? The first African to win the Pritzker Prize, Kr has humble origins. But people are dedicated to these projects, they feel connected to them. Frank Gehrys most recognizable works, such as his famous Bilbao Guggenheim, came one decade after his 1989 Pritzker. His curvilinear SKF-RTL Children Learning Centre in Kenya, meanwhile, was built from compressed earth bricks that were produced on-site. "This is not just a prize for myself," he said on the phone from Berlin, Germany, where he headquartered his firm, Kr Architecture. From a village to a nation state, you need to look around the country and ask, 'Where do you have local and natural stone and then we go to source it, in order (not to borrow) a style from somewhere else. Francis Kr's temporary pavilion in London's Hyde Park, a prestigious assignment given to a different world-famous architect every year. He has shown us how architecture today can reflect and serve needs, including the aesthetic needs, of peoples throughout the world.
He has also adapted his approach to different contexts in Burkina Faso, where he has completed almost a dozen projects, and across the continent, from Senegal to Uganda, Togo to Sudan. Wed love to hear your feedback here. This is the case of his two projects underway for the Benin National Assembly, in advanced construction, and for the Burkina Faso National Assembly, temporarily halted by the current political situation in the country. But more significantly, perhaps, is that his name will now be included in the same echelon as past Pritzker winners: Philip Johnson, James Stirling, Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, Oscar Niemeyer, I.M. With an architectural expression deeply rooted in his upbringing and experiences in Gando, Kr communicated to the world West African tradition, especially the practice of communing under a sacred tree to exchange ideas, narrate stories, celebrate and assemble. "It doesn't take a miracle; it's possible. "Without having the courage to go back home, and to get my people to join me on the journey to build the school that (launched) my career, this would never have been be possible.". Two years later, the architect completed his first permanent structure in the Americas with a bundled pine log pavilion (made from dead trees) in rural Fishtail, Montana. How a Silicon Valley dad designed the next generation of face mask, Huge genetic study suggests alcohol accelerates biological aging, The incredible plan for a 170-km-long skyscraper in the Saudi desert. The judges highlighted his ingenious approach to sustainability, which embraces passive techniques like natural ventilation and lighting to provide comfort in challenging conditions, as well as his efforts to improve educational facilities in his homeland Burkina Faso, elsewhere in Africa and beyond. The school consists of nine modules arranged around a central courtyard, protecting the space from wind and dust. It was announced today that the 2022 Pritzker Prize was awarded to the 56-year-old architect, Dibdo Francis Kr. The 2022 laureate of architectures highest honor, the Pritzker Architecture Prize is Dibdo Francis Kr, known as Francis Kr, Burkina Faso-born architect, educator, social activist, receiver of the 2004 Aga Khan Award for Architecture and designer of the 2017 Serpentine Pavilion. Adam scours the globe from his home in Spain in order to bring the best of innovative architecture and sustainable design to the pages of New Atlas. In each case, his work is as much about process as design. This project awarded him the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2004, and led to the inception of his own practice Kr Architecture, in Berlin, Germany, in 2005. This ancient technique maintains cool interior climates in parts of Africa where temperatures routinely top 100 degrees Fahrenheit. I am hoping to change the paradigm, push people to dream and undergo risk. After success in his home country, the architect opened his firm Kr Architecture in 2005, with offices in Berlin and Burkina Faso. In this he provides a narrative in which architecture can become a source of continued and lasting happiness and joy.". Another career highlight is Kr's design for the National Assembly of Burkina Faso, which was commissioned to replace the former structure destroyed during the Burkinab uprising in 2014 and is unfortunately currently on hold due to domestic political turmoil. Working with local craftspeople not only imparts ownership over community buildings, Kr said, but it helps develop vocational skills that can be used to generate future income. "There is still a feeling that everything that's local is primitive," he said. He has developed a sensitive, bottom-up approach in its embrace of community participation. 2022 Cond Nast. After completing his education, Kr couldve easily done what so many architects before him had: remained in Europe to focus on skyscrapers, museums, and other lucrative civic buildings.
Its successful completion was followed by similarly inspired teachers' housing, an extension, and a library in the following years, all of which take their place superbly in the village. Should it be ambitious in order to inspire change? Or is modesty the only way to be pertinent and achieve results? A secondary facade made of local eucalyptus wood wraps around the classrooms to create multiple shaded spaces ideal for kids to hang out and socialize or work. So, when they have more money to spend, they try to look for other materials.". Raising funds for the school from overseas, the architect returned to his village with plans for a contemporary and sustainable 5,600-square-foot facility. In fact, for the 2017 Serpentine Pavilion, the architect imagined a structure that takes its shape from a tree, with a detached roof and disconnected yet curved walls formed by triangular indigo modules, the color representing strength in his culture and more personally, a blue boubou garment worn by the architect as a child. You can see more examples of Dibdo Francis Kr's works in the gallery. In a world where architects are building projects in the most diverse contexts not without controversies Kr contributes to the debate by incorporating local, national, regional, and global dimensions in a very personal balance of grassroots experience, academic quality, low tech, high tech, and truly sophisticated multiculturalism. Most of his spare time is spent dabbling in music, tinkering with old Macintosh computers and trying to keep his even older VW bus on the road. ArchDaily 2008-2022. The designs of this years laureate span from the Startup Lions Campus in Kenya (which was named an AD 2022 Works of Wonder) to a series of teachers housing units in Burkina Faso. How architect Mariam Kamara is masterminding a sustainable future for Niger, Kr's growing international profile has invited increasingly monumental commissions. In both cases, Kr said, the challenge was to create uniquely African expressions of democracy, memory and identity. He was born in a remote village in Burkina Faso, West Africa, which is one of the world's poorest countries. My days were filled with securing food and water, but also simply being together, talking together, building houses together. What is the role of architecture in contexts of extreme scarcity? His Gando Primary School is an excellent example of his inspired approach to sustainable design and was created with the local climate in mind, Gando Primary School was constructed from local materials and is designed to keep students naturally cool without the need for air-conditioning, The National Assembly of Burkina Faso was commissioned to replace the former building which was destroyed during a political uprising, Construction of the National Assembly of Burkina Faso is currently on hold but once complete it will include greenery on its roof, informal meeting areas, and some shaded market areas, The Lyce Schorge Secondary School in Burkina Faso consists of nine modules arranged around a central courtyard, protecting the central space from wind and dust, The Lyce Schorge Secondary School in Burkina Faso focuses on passive ventilation, open airy spaces, and the use of local materials, The Benin National Assembly's stunning wooden design references the West African tradition of people meeting under a tree to make community decisions, The Burkina Institute of Technology is designed to be easily expandable if the school needs to grow, The Surgical Clinic and Health Centre in Burkina Faso provides surgical, maternity, and in-patient care. The Lyce Schorge Secondary School in Palogo, Burkina Faso. All rights reserved. The building's design takes inspiration from the towering mounds built by termite colonies in the region. His first building, Gando Primary School in 2001, was built by and for the locals, who crafted every part of the establishment by hand, guided by the architects inventive forms of indigenous materials and modern engineering. Kr is the first African-born architect to win the fields highest honor. All images are each office/photographer mentioned. I remember the room where my grandmother would sit and tell stories with a little light, while we would huddle close to each other and her voice inside the room enclosed us, summoning us to come closer and form a safe place.
The villagers' instinct to conflate modern materials and notions of progress is something that the architect has encountered throughout his career. The first African architect to claim the award in its 43-year history, Kr achieved the feat with a portfolio consisting largely of schools, health centers and community facilities -- projects that might once have been considered too modest for a prize that has historically honored the designers of iconic buildings. Everyone took care of you and the entire village was your playground. The oldest son of the village chief and the first in his community to attend school, the architects first sense of architecture stemmed from his childhood classroom that lacked ventilation and light, on one hand, and from the little illuminated yet safe space where his grandmother would sit and tell stories, on another. "Hand-crafting, and cutting or putting materials together, was something that fascinated me," he said. The classrooms' ceilings, meanwhile, are made from perforated plaster and diffuse indirect sunlight inside without unduly warming the interior. In response, he developed an ad-hoc, highly performative and expressive architectural vocabulary: double roofs, thermal mass, wind towers, indirect lighting, cross ventilation and shade chambers (instead of conventional windows, doors, and columns) have not only become his core strategies but have actually acquired the status of built dignity. He was awarded a scholarship to attend Technische Universitt Berlin (Berlin, Germany) in 1995, graduating in 2004 with an advanced degree in architecture. My days were filled with securing food and water, but also simply being together, talking together, building houses together. He has continuously pursued this task in ways at once highly respectful of place and tradition and yet transformational in what can be offered, as in the primary school in Gando which served as an example to so many even beyond the borders of Burkina Faso, and to which he later added a complex of teachers housing and a library. "The more local materials you use, the better you can promote the local economy and (build) local knowledge, which also makes people proud.". With his work in 2001 on the Gando Primary School, for example, Kr invited locals to work on every part of the building process. A digital impression of the Benin National Assembly, which is currently under construction. In 2017, Kr designed Londons Serpentine Pavilion. After traveling further for his education and eventually graduating as an architect in Berlin he continues to split his time between Germany and his birthplace to this day Kr eventually returned home to make good on his vow and build his village a new school. Born in Burkina Faso to parents who insisted that their son be educated, Francis Kr went on to study architecture in Berlin. I grew up in a community where there was no kindergarten, but where the community was your family. Yet, he sees a growing divide between design and construction, believing that many of today's architects are alienated from the processes that bring their visions to life. Some of his significant works are Xylem at Tippet Rise Art Centre (2019, Montana, United States), Lo Doctors Housing (2019, Lo, Burkina Faso), Lyce Schorge Secondary School (2016, Koudougou, Burkina Faso), the National Park of Mali (2010, Bamako, Mali) and Opera Village (Phase I, 2010, Laongo, Burkina Faso). As this year's Pritzker Prize jury, chaired by 2016 winner, How African 'feng shui' can shape the continent's cities of the future, Kr's background in carpentry makes him as much a builder as an architect. And we need to be aware that young professionals who (spend time) on construction sites, and really see how materials are put together, will have a different approach to design than those who just design on their computers.". He raises fundamental questions of the meaning of permanence and durability of construction in a context of constant technological changes and of use and re-use of structures. "Since the world began to pay attention to the remarkable work and life story of Francis Kr, he has served as a singular beacon in architecture. "You have people just sitting in an office with a computer designing and shaping our world. Thee National Park of Mali, by Dibdo Francis Kr. The Future of Architectural Visualization, Sustainability and Performance in Architecture, local materials and building contemporary facilities, acclaimed architect is present equally in Burkina Faso and Germany, Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture, Marshall Building, The London School of Economics and Political Science. At the Benga Riverside Residential Community in Mozambique, Kr incorporated existing baobab trees, shrubs and native grasses in his design, offering shade and protecting houses from dusty winds. But its not just on his home continent that the architect has found success. Younger, Kr had vowed to one day make schools better in extreme climates, allowing for true teaching, learning, and excitement, and in 1998, he established the Kr Foundation to fundraise and advocate for a childs right to a comfortable classroom. With the selection of Dibdo Francis Kr (a 2020 AD100 debut), the Pritzker committee continues to embrace that mission, with newfound attention to sustainability, both in terms of environment and community. In 1985, he traveled to Berlin on a vocational carpentry scholarship, learning to make roofs and furniture by day, while attending secondary classes at night. Though Kr has since designed bigger projects, including large-scale campuses and two national parliaments, his approach remains grounded in principles established in Gando. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (2018) and the American Institute of Architects (2012) and a chartered member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (2009).
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