Spirits Out Of Trees: Francis Kéré, Gando/Montana artist book and imagination collide in a

and imagination collide in a vividly material practice to which the influences of fiction and film

the environment and the looming climate crisis

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Spirits Out Of Trees: Francis Kéré, Gando/Montana artist book and imagination collide in aSpirits out of Trees traces the interwoven stories of two designs by the Berlin based Burkinab German architect Francis Kr. Xylem is a pavilion nestled among the trees of the Tippet Rise Art Center in Fishtail, Montana, USA. The Naaba Belem Goumma Secondary School was built for Krs birthplace, Gando, in Burkina Faso. Geography, climate, and surrounding culture distinguish the two structures; yet, they are united by an underlying philosophy: to create