Jean Nouvel
Jean Nouvel
Jean Nouvelis 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, 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...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth12 August 1945
CityFumel, France
CountryFrance
Each new situation requires a new architecture.
Architecture exists, like cinema, in the dimension of time and movement
It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.
My interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical references. My work deals with what is happening now—our techniques and materials, what we are capable of doing today.
If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!
I generally hate the luxury modern apartment with too many things out of sight and so clean you cannot touch.