Low Tech High
Aug 26, 2021
3 minutes
WORDS _Mairi Beautyman
PHOTOS _Iwan Baan
“Let the structure grow.” This was the unique brief for a West African university, the Burkina Institute of Technology. Rising from a barren desert landscape in a region with limited access to higher education, the 2,100-square-metre school entices prospective students with its compelling and expandable architecture.
“The kids started coming by as soon as we began to build,” remembers Diébédo Francis Kéré, founder of Berlin-based Kéré Architecture and the mind behind the university’s design. “First to watch, and then with, ‘Wow, something new is
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