2022 Pritzker Prize Award: Architect Kere on design philosophy - YouTube
CGTN’s Tian Wei interviews Francis Kere
Growing up in a poor village in Burkina Faso, Francis Kéré didn’t play soccer with the other boys. He helped fix houses.
After winning a scholarship to a vocational school for carpentry in Germany and attending architecture school at the Technical University of Berlin, Kéré didn’t rush to join a prestigious firm. As an architecture student, he had raised the money to build an elementary school in his hometown, Gando, with construction help from local residents, drawing blueprints for them in the sand.
And even after earning international acclaim at exhibitions like the Serpentine Pavilion in London and the Venice Biennale, Kéré has continually directed his attention toward home.
It is this devotion to lifting up the community he came from that has helped Kéré, 56, earn the Pritzker Prize, architecture’s highest award From the New York Times, March 15, 2022.
Near-full transcript of Premier Li Keqiang's Press Conference
The economy and the people’s livelihoods
Li Keqiang on Friday, March 11, 2022 held the 10th and also his last press conference in the capacity of China’s Premier immediately after the closing of an annual National People’s Congress session.
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