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.
If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!