cy, and scarcity are concerns for us all”, Kéré told reporters. It is no surprise he has been awarded the Pritzker Prize by a jury chaired by Chilean Alejandro Aravena, the 2016 winner and one of the main advocates for inclusive architecture, so much so that he made some of his designs freely available to the public and fellow architects through the internet. Are we approaching a breakthrough, prompted by the pandemic and climate change? To be fair, this interest in socially responsible urban development has already been changing our cities, and how we experience them, for quite a while. One needs only to think of the many formerly abandoned spaces that have been RESTORED and turned into parks, museums, and community centres. The five modular residences of Léo Doctors’ Housing, in Burkina Faso, designed by Kéré. They are composed of compressed stabilized earth blocks and coated with plaster, shielding the interiors from heat and the exteriors from deterioration by the elements. Photo by Kéré. ARCHITYPES 8 EXCERPT
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