Jean Nouvel Architect

Jean Nouvel (French: [ʒɑ̃ nu.vɛl]; born 12 August 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 Architecture (technically, the prize was awarded for the Institut 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.

Personal facts

Jean Nouvel
Birth dateAugust 12, 1945
Birth place
Fumel

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Architect

Awards
Pritzker Architecture Prize
Wolf Prize in Arts
Aga Khan Award for Architecture
Praemium Imperiale
Significant building
Barcelona
Torre Agbar
Arab World Institute
Musée du quai Branly
Lucerne
Guthrie Theater
Lucerne Culture and Congress Centre
Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain
Significant project
Philharmonie de Paris
Louvre Abu Dhabi

Jean Nouvel on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.archicentral.com/tag/jean-nouvel
  2. http://www.arti-fact.com/architect/map/46/Jean-Nouvel
  3. http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Jean_Nouvel.html
  4. http://www.jeannouvel.com
  5. http://www.vanityfair.com/ontheweb/blogs/daily/2008/04/beauty-ysl-nouv.html