Born in 1992, Hermann Kamte is an award-winning Cameroonian Architect. He is the Founding Associates and the Creative Director at HKA | Hermann Kamte & Associates. In June 2019, Hermann Kamte has been awarded “Forbes Africa 30 under 30 Class of 2019, in Creative Category” and, “Quartz ‘African Innovator 2019”.

In 2016, He earned Master’s Degree in Architecture with « Distinction » at the prestigious EAMAU (École Africaine des Métiers de l’Architecture et de l’Urbanisme). Hermann is a Co-Founder and Board Director at BIM Africa Initiative; not-profit organization formed to enable and implementation BIM in Africa.

Hermann has received numerous awards and honors, including the WAFX Prize’s Cultural Identity Prize in 2017 at the World Architecture Festival or the American Prize of Architecture 2017, for his project “Lagos Wooden Tower”, the first proposed tall timber in Africa. For social design, he received The Inaugural Archi. Awards Africa “Premiere” held by African Union of Architects (AUA) in 2018.