Gando Primary School is three classroom bars of hand-pressed laterite brick under a corrugated zinc roof that never touches the building. A slender steel truss holds the metal clear so hot savannah air leaves through a perforated clay ceiling. Francis Kéré built it for his own village; it won the Aga Khan Award in 2004 and carried him to the Pritzker in 2022.

The system takes its colour straight off those walls — red earth in full sun, ochre steel doors, galvanised zinc, and the deep indigo of the 2017 Serpentine Pavilion used as a whole mass. Type is a clean grotesque. Layouts are long, low and modular, built around the section and the hard shade of midday.