Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect + Francis Kéré: An Architect Between

Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect / Mark Noonan / Ireland, France, Spain, US 2017 / 82 min – The Pritzker-Prize-winning Irish-American architect Kevin Roche is not world-famous, despite a lifetime of acclaimed work such as the Ford Foundation headquarters and College Life Insurance Company as well as 60 Wall Street and new galleries for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Roche represents a movement weaving together technological progress and natural elements, while highlighting the importance of shared public space. The film introduces a successful man with little interest in celebrity but an enormous energy looking out to the future with no intention of ever retiring.

Francis Kéré: An Architect Between / Daniel Schwartz / Switzerland 2016 / 19 min – Pritzker-prize winner of 2022 Francis Kéré creates simple technology designs for both developing and high-income countries and uses local materials to enhance social, economic and political environments. The film documents several architectural projects between his home country Burkina Faso in Africa and Germany, where he attempts to build a community center for Syrian immigrants.