Work
Gando Primary School
Explore in the Atlas →Kéré's first building, a community-built clay-and-cement school with a passively cooling double roof, demonstrates how local materials, climate-responsive design and collective labour can transform rural education.
Collectivity Dwelling Production
Details
- Type
- Building
- Location
- Gando, Burkina Faso
Classifications
- Holder
- Communal intergenerational
- Source of authority
- Lived experienceObservation
- Subject
- Human centred
- Political position
- Subaltern resistant
- Degree of codification
- Protocol performed
- Mode of transmission
- ApprenticeshipOral song embodied
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- AfricanWestern philosophical
Connections
- exemplifies Vernacular Architecture
- articulates Appropriate Technology
Referenced by
- Diébédo Francis Kéré authored
Sources
- Aga Khan Trust for Culture. Primary School, Gando (Aga Khan Award for Architecture). AKDN, 2004.
- Francis Kéré and Ayça Beygo (ed.). Francis Kéré: Radically Simple. Hatje Cantz, 2016.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Gando Primary School." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/work/gando-primary-school/. Accessed July 17, 2026.