Francis Kere lectured at PennDesign last week, and showed his impressive recent work. Chair Winka Dubbeldam, and Chair Richard Wesley, are shown here with Kere at the reception after. It was at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which currently features Kere’s work.
Kéré Architecture has produced international projects in other countries including the Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum in Switzerland, the Camper Pop-up Shop at Vitra Campus in Germany, the Center for Earth Architecture in Mali and the National Park of Mali. He has contributed works for internationally-acclaimed exhibitions such as Sensing Spaces at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, AFRITECTURE at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, Jeter un Pont at Arc en Rêve Centre d'Architecture in Bordeaux, AFRICA at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek, and the 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial. Projects currently underway are the Benga Riverside Residential Development in Mozambique, an educational campus for the Mama Sarah Obama Foundation in Kenya, and two masterplansfor the redesign of former military barracks for the cities of Mannheim and Münster in Germany.