Pritzker Prize winner: Francis Kéré, Man For All Seasons

There’s a lot of mystery surrounding Diebédo Francis Kéré. He has one of those names that people have heard but aren’t quite sure where. In fact he’s the 2004 Aga Khan Award-winning architect from Burkina Faso, a contributor to the Royal Academy’s 2014 Sensing Spaces exhibition – and  the architect of this year’s Serpentine Pavilion in London’s Hyde Park. True to the project’s intentions, it is the first building he has designed here.

‘You have to keep some things to yourself,’ Kéré says as we sit down in his office in Berlin in a converted warehouse at the back of a courtyard in a typical 19th century city block in Kreuzberg. ‘You have to keep a bit of mystery.’