Francis Kéré interview: The architect's hometown school launched his career | Architecture | Dezeen

In this exclusive movie produced by Dezeen, Serpentine Pavilion architect Diébédo Francis Kéré reveals how building a school for his home village in Burkina Faso was the starting point for his career.
Kéré was born in a village named Gando, a village on the east side of the African country. While studying to become an architect in Germany, back in 2001, he embarked on a building project for the place where he grew up.
"In my culture everyone has to put his path to push the community forward, so I started to build a school," he explains in the film.
Kéré was the first son of the head of the village, who allowed him to attend school as a child - although this was very rare. By building Gando Primary School, Kéré made it possible for any child in the village to receive an education.
It was his first ever architecture project, and set a precedent for a style of architecture that combines traditional building techniques with modern engineering methods.
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[@paune2734]

This is real architecture, for real people, for real conditions, and I hope, for a real bugdet... 👏👏👏👏 Congrats!!!

[@gracemureithi6988]

This is awesome. We as Africans need to refocus and become community centred other than self-centered. This is what Francis has done

[@gobontu6224]

A human beeing, with human values , this deserves applause, so rare in our world. Greetings from berlin

[@dimitristsekeris1821]

Few videos have made me sob so badly. How long have we been expecting Africa to start develop by its own? More architects from other countries should follow this man's example and built low cost, highly efficient buildings for the world's underdeveloped societies, rather than being attracted only by ambitious developments.

[@mox.kartal]

Magnificent architecture.

[@melinabee3]

Amazing architect and building

[@CSGupta-ir4nt]

Good Design. Good Architecture. Simple building and cost effective. Congratulations.

[@lalaoubli104]

Great and simple!

[@basuramanya]

Amazing building.

[@ashisbanerjee4178]

I came here after I read about Fransis kere's work in a Bengali news paper from India. Thanks Mr. Kere for your work.

[@fideltuda4678]

Me I personally think that we as Africans should focus on building our homes in an African way. When he said he builds house not by western design I was happy but when he said we should not also base it purely on African architecture I was disappointed. I believe it should be based purely on African architecture the task is to find ways to make them look modern.

[@irvenmukamba9322]

this is inspiring

[@cliffwoodbury5319]

beautiful - that dcanopy (double roof) works wonders as far as keeping the building cool

[@churscky]

Proud of him

[@agimkhaled6933]

Fantastic.

[@cahuillatube]

Beautiful

[@Meera12196]

Wonderful work

[@mwendapoleee]

Looks beautiful!!

[@abeleli2651]

Good heart

[@francescos7361]

La scuola di Gando , grazie mille .

[@AnthonyAffrim]

Wow wow wow 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@tvk9443]

respect !

[@lpiavelino6598]

excellent

[@adansikofi5735]

How do i get his cantact please

[@ivanjandric8702]

Beautiful