首位非洲建筑師獲普利茲克獎

江西 侯昌瑋

迪埃貝多·弗朗西斯·凱雷（Diébédo Francis Kéré），來自西非貧困國家布基納法索的鄉村，建筑師、教育家和社會活動家，2022 年榮獲普利茲克建筑獎。這也是該獎項首次頒發給非洲建筑師。

主題語境：人與社會 篇幅：325詞 建議用時：7分鐘

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.但是他在專注于屋頂蓋法和家具制作的實用性的同時還去上夜校，之后被柏林工業大學錄取，并于2004 年以建筑學高級學位畢業。

【點石成金】本句是主從復合句。句中，while 引導的是時間狀語從句；absorbed in the practicality of roofing and furniture making 部分是過去分詞短語作狀語，省略了he was；which引導的是定語從句，先行詞是Technical University of Berlin。

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recognitionn.認出；贊譽；賞識

recipientn.收件人；接受者；受方

vocationaladj.職業的；職業技術的；業務知識的

innovativeadj.引進新思想的；革新的；創新的