Francis Kéré: Serpentine Pavilion 2017 — “Gathering Form: Making a Building, Building Community”

“Francis Kéré creates by centering his approach on the question, ‘How will this building be made?’ For him this is not an abstract question but a specific, community-based inquiry into locally available materials, techniques, tools and people—an interrelated set of criteria that can shift over the life of a project. Nested within this investigation is the goal of making a building’s construction a collective enterprise that gathers communities together, strengthening their social bonds and empowering them with new knowledge, skills and confidence.”