Architecture & Interiors/2011/32 min/Reel № 11.001
ByFrancis Kéré
Francis Kéré: African architecture should stop copying the West
What Will Creativity Hold for the Future?/Recorded 2011
A close reading, kept within reach.
Francis Kéré takes architecture & interiors as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.
Recorded in Burkina Faso in 2011, the conversation is grounded in Francis's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.
The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.
African architecture should stop copying the West, engage the real needs of the people and regard the environment, says Diébédo Francis Kéré.
About the speaker
Francis Kéré
Burkina Faso
Diébédo Francis Kéré is an architect from Burkina Faso. The focus of Kéré’s drafts are climatic adaptation, low building costs and self building.
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