Portrait of architect and Creative Director Hermann Kamte

Hermann Kamte is an award-winning Cameroonian Architect and the Creative Director at HKA | Hermann Kamte & Associates. He is the Chairman, Founder and Chief Executive Officer at HKA.
Born in 1992 in Yaounde, Cameroon, Kamte is recognised as a young talent of contemporary and African architecture through major conceptual and theoretical projects. His project, Lagos’s Wooden Tower | Abebe Court Tower, Lagos – Nigeria, enjoyed a series of international awards and media coverage in publications such as The Architectural Review, Business Day and Financial Times.

In 2016, Kamte earned his master’s degree in architecture at the prestigious EAMAU (École Africaine des Métiers de l’Architecture et de l’Urbanisme) and shortly afterward founded his eponymous practice.

Since graduation in 2016, Kamte has received a series of international awards including but not limited to the inaugural WAFX Prize 2017 (1st Prize Cultural Identity) at the World Architecture Festival 2017; the American Prize for Architecture 2017 (Gold in Architectural Design/Green architecture); Rethinking The Future Awards 2017.

Kamte has taken part in several collective exhibitions across the world (United Kingdom, China, India, Italia, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Togo, Albania, Ukraine, Russia, Germany, Australia), and has exhibited the research project ‘Lagos’s Wooden Tower’ in London at Roca London Gallery under the theme: “Timber Rising: Vertical Visions for the Cities of Tomorrow”.

Kamte has been featured on several international media platforms including The Architectural Review, Financial Times, CNN, Business Day, CTBUH, Afrique Magazine, Australian Timber Magazine, African Design Magazine, and Design Indaba.