Goethe-Institut Dakar

In spring 2022, shortly after the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Goethe-Institut in Dakar, Diébédo Francis Kéré became the first architect of African descent to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize. The award honored a body of work that interweaves resource-sensitive construction, social commitment, and cultural grounding. Across his projects—ranging from schools, clinics, and cultural centers to buildings of political representation, primarily carried out on the African continent—Kéré derives architectural strategies from the intersection of social needs, climatic contexts, locally embedded materials, craftsmanship, and building traditions.