首位非洲建筑师获普利兹克奖

江西 侯昌玮

迪埃贝多·弗朗西斯·凯雷（Diébédo Francis Kéré），来自西非贫困国家布基纳法索的乡村，建筑师、教育家和社会活动家，2022 年荣获普利兹克建筑奖。这也是该奖项首次颁发给非洲建筑师。

主题语境：人与社会 篇幅：325词 建议用时：7分钟

1Architect Diébédo Francis Kéré from Burkina Faso won The Pritzker Architecture Prize, the world's highest recognition in building design.

2Kéré is a citizen of both Burkina Faso and Germany and lives in Berlin. He said he was the“happiest man on this planet”to become the 51st recipient of the famous yearly prize. Kéré is famed for building schools, health centers, housing, and other public spaces across Africa. His buildings can be found in his homeland, as well as in Benin, Mali, Kenya, Mozambique, Togo and Sudan. When he was 20, in 1985, Kéré earned a vocational scholarship to study carpentry in Berlin.But while absorbed in the practicality of roofing and furniture making,he also attended night school and was admitted to Technical University of Berlin, from which he graduated in2004with an advanced degree in architecture.He was still a student when he designed and built the innovative Gando Primary School.

3Unlike traditional school buildings,which use concrete,Kéré's inventive design combined local clay and cement to form bricks. The material helps keep the building cool in a hot environment.A wide and raised metal roof protects the building from rain and helps air flow. Kéré involved the local community throughout the design and building of the school.The number of students at the school increased from 120 to 700.

4Kéré is the first African to be honored with the Pritzker. In his native Burkina Faso,citizens celebrated the win. Nebila Aristide Bazie, head of the Burkina Faso architects'council,said the award“highlights the African architect and the people of Burkina Faso”.

5“He knows, from within, that architecture is not about the object but the objective;not the product,but the process,”said the 2022 Jury.“Kéré's entire body of work shows us the power of material rooted in place.His buildings,for and with communities,are directly of those communities—in their making, their materials, their programs and their unique characters.”

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Ⅰ.Difficult sentence in the text

But while absorbed in the practicality of roofing and furniture making, he also attended night school and was admitted to Technical University of Berlin,from which he graduated in 2004 with an advanced degree in architecture.但是他在专注于屋顶盖法和家具制作的实用性的同时还去上夜校，之后被柏林工业大学录取，并于2004 年以建筑学高级学位毕业。

【点石成金】本句是主从复合句。句中，while 引导的是时间状语从句；absorbed in the practicality of roofing and furniture making 部分是过去分词短语作状语，省略了he was；which引导的是定语从句，先行词是Technical University of Berlin。

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recognitionn.认出；赞誉；赏识

recipientn.收件人；接受者；受方

vocationaladj.职业的；职业技术的；业务知识的

innovativeadj.引进新思想的；革新的；创新的