The Architect's Newspaper March/April 2022
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Emerging Voices
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The Dark Chalet pushes the envelope page 36
The Ion in Houston upgrades an art deco Sears into a tech-incubating cyborg. Read on page 19.
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Metaverses and NFTs offer promises and pitfalls for architects. Read on page 32.
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Building a Foundation
Francis Kéré is the 2022 Pritzker Prize laureate
Diébédo Francis Kéré, an architect whose playful ephemeral commissions have graced Kensington Gardens and the Coachella Valley and whose low-cost, technically innovative permanent structures have had an outsized impact in his native Burkina Faso, is the recipient of the 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize. Kéré is the 51st laureate of the prestigious architecture award and its first African recipient. Also a distinguished educator and social activist, Kéré, 56, founded his eponymous, socially minded design practice in Berlin in 2005 shortly after graduating from Technische Universität Berlin with an advanced degree in architecture. Kéré first arrived in Berlin in 1985 on a vocational carpentry scholarship and maintains dual citizenship in Burkina Faso and Germany. Kéré’s first realized building, a primary school located continued on page 4
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