FRANCIS KÉRÉ
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FRANCIS KÉRÉ

BUILDING STORIES

KÉRÉ, FRANCIS

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72,75 €
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Editorial:
TASCHEN
Año de edición:
2026
Materias
ISBN:
978-3-7544-0507-9
Páginas:
444
Encuadernación :
Rústica
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Francis Kéré’s riveting first-person account reveals the ideas and values that drive him and his socially engaged architectural practice. The 2022 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize covers 26 key projects, illustrated with many unseen sketches, photographs, and drawings in a volume beautifully crafted by the Amsterdam-based graphic design studio of Irma Boom.

Featured works include his Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, the Gando school projects, national assembly designs for Burkina Faso and Benin, the Thomas Sankara Memorial, and the recently revealed Las Vegas Museum of Art. Kéré’s own voice moves effortlessly between poetry and pragmatism. From the technicalities of cutting bricks on site to the political and environmental forces shaping his designs, he delights in both hands-on craft and big thinking. One chapter subtitle-How to funnel imagination into the grid of rules (without preventing it from flying)-says it all.

For Kéré, architecture is an engine of shared learning and exchange, made collectively rather than imposed from above. The architect is never the star, but a facilitator of common purpose. His designs are rooted in vernacular knowledge and non-elitist values, yet fully engaged with the urgent realities of our time, from climate change and overpopulation to the fragile infrastructures of young democracies.

Reading this feels like looking into Kéré’s own notebook, with his annotations scribbled alongside the work. It concludes with two reflective texts-one by Ghanaian-Scottish academic and novelist Lesley Lokko, and another by Kéré’s mentor Juhani Pallasmaa-placing his practice within a wider cultural, ethical, and architectural conversation.


El fascinante testimonio de Francis Kéré revela las ideas y los valores que impulsan su práctica arquitectónica con compromiso social. Presenta 26 proyectos clave, ilustrados con numerosos bocetos, fotografías y dibujos inéditos, en un volumen bellamente concebido por el estudio de diseño gráfico de Irma Boom, con sede en Ámsterdam.

Entre las obras destacadas figuran el Serpentine Pavilion, los proyectos escolares de Gando, los diseños de las asambleas nacionales de Burkina Faso y Benín, el Memorial Thomas Sankara y el recientemente presentado Museo de Arte de Las Vegas. La voz de Kéré transita con naturalidad entre la poesía y el pragmatismo. Desde aspectos técnicos, como cortar ladrillos in situ, hasta las fuerzas políticas y medioambientales que modelan sus diseños, atiende tanto el trabajo artesanal como la reflexión a gran escala. Uno de los subtítulos de capítulo lo resume todo: “Cómo canalizar la imaginación dentro de la cuadrícula de normas (sin impedir que vuele)”.

Para Kéré, la arquitectura es un motor de aprendizaje e intercambio que se crea colectivamente y no se impone desde arriba. El arquitecto nunca es la estrella, sino un facilitador de un propósito común. Sus diseños se arraigan en el conocimiento vernáculo y en valores no elitistas, pero plenamente comprometidos con las realidades urgentes de nuestro tiempo, desde el cambio climático y la superpoblación hasta las frágiles infraestructuras de las jóvenes democracias.

Leer este libro es como asomarse al cuaderno personal de Kéré, con sus anotaciones garabateadas junto a las obras. Concluye con dos textos reflexivos —uno de la académica y novelista ghanesa-escocesa Lesley Lokko y otro de su mentor Juhani Pallasmaa— que sitúan su práctica en una conversación cultural, ética y arquitectónica más amplia.

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