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About The Architect
Jean Nouvel
(born August 12, 1945) is a French architect. Nouvel studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and was a founding member of Mars 1976 and Syndicat de l'Architecture.
He has obtained a number of prestigious distinctions over the course of his career, including the Aga Khan Award for ArchitectureInstitut du Monde Arabe which Nouvel designed), the Wolf Prize in Arts in 2005 and the Pritzker Prize in 2008. A number of museums and architectural centres have presented retrospectives of his work.
About The Architect
Jean Nouvel
(born August 12, 1945) is a French architect. Nouvel studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and was a founding member of Mars 1976 and Syndicat de l'Architecture. He has obtained a number of prestigious distinctions over the course of his career, including the Aga Khan Award for ArchitectureInstitut du Monde Arabe which Nouvel designed), the Wolf Prize in Arts in 2005 and the Pritzker Prize in 2008. A number of museums and architectural centres have presented retrospectives of his work.
Nouvel was awarded the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honour, in 2008, for his work on more than 200 projects,among them, in the words of The New York Times, the "exotically louvered" Arab World Institute, the bullet-shaped and "candy-colored" Torre Agbar in Barcelona, the "muscular" Guthrie TheaterMusée du quai Branly (2006) and the Philharmonie de Paris (a "trip into the unknown" c. 2012). ~wiki
with its cantilevered bridge in Minneapolis, and in Paris, the "defiant, mysterious and wildly eccentric"Pritzker points to several more major works: in Europe, the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art (1994), the Culture and Convention Center in Lucerne (2000), the Opéra Nouvel in Lyon (1993) , Expo 2002 in Switzerland and, under construction, the Copenhagen Concert Hall and the courthouse in Nantes (2000); as well as two tall towers in planning in North America, Tour Verre in New York City and a cancelled condominium tower in Los Angeles read more on wiki
Paperback: 332 pages
Publisher: El Croquis Editorial (2002)
Language: Middle English
ASIN: B001FIA6ZA
Product Dimensions: 13.4 x 9.5 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 4.6 pounds
Product Details
Hardcover: 898 pages
Publisher: Taschen; Col Sgd Lt edition (November 1, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3836509350
ISBN-13: 978-3836509350
Product Dimensions: 14.5 x 13.8 x 17.5 inches
