Renowned TUM Professor Honored with Prestigious Arts Prize for Lifetime Achievements

Another top-level honor goes to Francis Kéré: The architect and professor at Technical University of Munich (TUM) is being recognized by the Japan Art Association with the Praemium Imperiale prize for his life’s work. Only last year Kéré’s achievements were honored with the distinguished Pritzker Architecture Prize.

Kéré has been TUM Professor of Architectural Design and Participation since October 2017. “Germany is my intellectual home and I respect TUM as an institution which embodies this,” says Kéré regarding his work at TUM.

Prof. Thomas F. Hofmann, President of TUM, offers his congratulations: “We are very pleased to have Francis Kéré at TUM as one of the most prominent and influential contemporary architects. His unique work, which focuses on the future of our planet as a whole, is a tremendous inspiration for students in particular, but also for our university as a whole.”