The Most Famous
ARCHITECTS from Burkina Faso
This page contains a list of the greatest Burkinabe Architects. The pantheon dataset contains 518 Architects, 1 of which were born in Burkina Faso. This makes Burkina Faso the birth place of the 56th most number of Architects behind Bangladesh, and Belarus.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Burkinabe Architects of all time. This list of famous Burkinabe Architects is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Diébédo Francis Kéré (b. 1965)
With an HPI of 56.23, Diébédo Francis Kéré is the most famous Burkinabe Architect. His biography has been translated into 22 different languages on wikipedia.
Diébédo Francis Kéré (born 10 April 1965) is a Burkinabé-German architect, recognized for creating innovative works that are often sustainable and collaborative in nature. In 2022, he became the first native African to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Educated at Technische Universität Berlin, he has lived in Berlin since 1985. Parallel to his studies, he established the Kéré Foundation (formerly Schulbausteine für Gando), and in 2005 he founded Kéré Architecture. His architectural practice has been recognized internationally with awards including the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (2004) for his first building, the Gando Primary School in Burkina Faso, and the Global Holcim Award for Sustainable Construction (2012 Gold). Kéré has undertaken projects in various countries including Burkina Faso, Mali, Kenya, Uganda, Mozambique, Togo, Sudan, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, the US, and the UK. In 2017 the Serpentine Galleries commissioned him to design the Serpentine Pavilion in London. He has held professorships at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Yale School of Architecture and the Swiss Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio. In 2017 he accepted the professorship for "Architectural Design and Participation" at the Technical University of Munich, and a guest professorship at Bauhaus University, Weimar, in 2021.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Burkinabe architects born between 1965 and 1965. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Burkinabe architects include Diébédo Francis Kéré. As of April 2024, 1 new Burkinabe architects have been added to Pantheon including Diébédo Francis Kéré.
