Francis Kéré’s newly launched Goethe-Institut Dakar is a powerful, purpose-built cultural beacon, dedicated to German cultural exchange. It also marks the Pritzker prize-winning, Berlin-based architect’s first project of this scale and institutional ambition to reach completion. Conceived following what Kéré describes as an ‘Arcadia architecture’ approach, the project embodies an optimistic vision in which spatial and material limits have been deliberately pushed.
Source: A first look inside Francis Kéré’s optimistic design for the Goethe-Institut Dakar | Wallpaper*