Francis Kéré and Rosalía, emerging, in the new edition of Coachella

Than 2018 has been the year of Rosalía, does not generate any kind of doubt at this point. That Francis Kéré is one of the stars of the same event, leaves some questions.

Spectra, Coachella, NEWSUBSTANCE (Don Idio)

After her resounding success (Rosalía, the most listened to artist in a day on Spotify with her album El mal querer, or her two Latin Grammies) the confirmation that Rosalía has been invited Coachella, the biggest music festival in the world, last Thursday. Crowned as pop diva in a poster headlining by Childish Gambino, Tame Impala and Ariana Grande, during two April weekends, in Indio, California.

However, it is striking that in addition to the local architects Office Kovacs, or the scenographic NEWSUBSTANCE and Dedo Vabo, among the selected designers was an architect like Francis Kéré, who has been presented in recent months as a paradigm of commitment architectural, leading the guest artists poster who will perform an installation for this macro music festival.

It will be a good moment to test the idea of his commitment architectural between the proposals of disposable consumption, easy and fast.

The design of Francis Kére will be made among more than half a dozen large-scale installations to be built in Coachella, where more than 100,000 people will experience the work of emerging artists, designers and architects.

The price of the tickets ranges from 429 dollars (about 380 euros) all weekend and 999 dollars (880 euros) for VIP tickets.

2018 Coachella Festival. Etherea by Edoardo Tresoldi. Photograph @ Roberto Conte

2018 Best of Design Award winner for Lighting – Outdoor: Spectra, Coachella, NEWSUBSTANCE (Don Idio)

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Diébédo Francis Kéré

Diébédo Francis Kéré (b.1965, in Gando, Burkina Faso, west Africa) trained at the Technical University of Berlin in Germany, started his Berlin based practice, Kéré Architecture, in 2005. Kéré Architecture has been recognised nationally and internationally with awards, including the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (2004) for his first building, a primary school in Gando, Burkina Faso; LOCUS Global Award for Sustainable Architecture (2009); Global Holcim Award Gold (2011 and 2012); Green Planet Architects Award (2013); Schelling Architecture Foundation Award (2014); and the Kenneth Hudson Award –European Museum of the Year (2015).

Projects undertaken by Francis Kéré span countries, including Burkina Faso,Mali, China, Mozambique, Kenya, Togo, Sudan, Germany and Switzerland. He has taught internationally, including the Technical University of Berlin, and he has held professorships at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and Accademia di Architettura di Mendriso in Switzerland.

Kéré’s work has recently been the subject of solo exhibitions: Radically Simple at the Architecture Museum, Munich (2016) and The Architecture of Francis Kéré: Building for Community, Philadelphia Museum of Art (2016). His work has also been selected for group exhibitions: Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2010) and Sensing Spaces, Royal Academy, London (2014).

Among his main works are the Primary School (2001) and the Library (under construction) of Gando, Burkina Faso; the Health and Social Promotion Center (2014) and the Opera Village (under construction), both in Laongo, Burkina Faso; the Satellite of the Volksbühne Theater at the Tempelhof Airport, in Berlin (temporary installation, 2016); or the Pavilion for the Serpentine Gallery of the year 2017.