For many architects, which distinguish them with important awards is an almost mandatory step to achieve greater prestige projects. And there is no greater award than The Pritzker Award for Architecturewhich is granted annually. Actually, it is practically the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for the Branch of Architecture. Today it has been announced that the Pritzker 2022 Award was awarded Diobédo Francis Kéré56 -year -old architect. With this award, the architect born in Burkina Faso will receive $ 100,000 and a bronze medal. However, perhaps the most significant is that its name will now be included in the same step as the previous winners of the Pritzker: Philip Johnson, James Stirling, Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, Oscar Niemeyer, Im Pei, Norman Foster and Tadao Andoamong others.
Since its foundation in 1979, the Pritzker Prize It has generally granted famous architects. In recent years, the jury of experts has again focused his gaze on less known practices around the world, companies with social awareness that defend design as a catalyst for the common good. (In 2004, for example, the one that the committee selected Zaha Hadid was a good counterweight to criticism that assured that the maximum award of architecture remained a Toby club). With the selection of DIEBÉDO FRANCIS KÉRÉthe Pritzker committee continues to hug that mission, with a new Attention to sustainability, both in terms of environment and community. Kéré uses a large number of citizens of Burkina Faso (in 2020, his country held the 20th position with the lowest per capita GDP) with carpentry work, welding, brick manufacturing, masonry and painting, which guarantees that the local community benefits from its projects as well as visitors. «Normally, with the public facilities here, nobody takes care of them,» said Kéré A AD In 2014, in reference to the structures of your country of origin. «But people dedicate themselves to these projects, feel linked to them. And if something happens, they are able to fix them.»