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In this report for Italian-based art and design publication Domus, writer Caroline James discusses a recent undertaking of award-winning Burkinabe architect Diébédo Francis Kéré where he took on two complex projects in the historic Dogon region of Mali, commissioned by the Aga Khan Foundation, as part of the country’s 50th independence celebration from France. 

Here Kere talks about the complexities he faced between notions of “technology and vernacular tradition”.

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  • December 1
  • , 2011
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