Francis Kéré Builds the Goethe-Institut Dakar from the Ground Up

Exterior of the Goethe-Institut Dakar, showing perforated laterite brick walls beneath a steel canopy

In Dakar, a new cultural landmark is rising from the soil. Designed by Pritzker Prize–winning architect Diébédo Francis Kéré, the new Goethe-Institut Senegal turns earth, memory, and craftsmanship toward a new era of African architectural possibility. In Dakar’s Fann neighbourhood, a baobab tree stands at the centre of a building that appears to have grown […]