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Jean Nouvel (born August 12, 1945, Fumel, Lot-et-Garonne, France) is a French architect who designed his buildings to “create a visual landscape” that fit their context—sometimes by making them contrast with the surrounding area.
Jean Nouvel (French: [ʒɑ̃ nuvɛl]; 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, France’s first labor union for architects.
Jean Nouvel was the recipient of the prestigious Pritzker Prize in 2008. In France, he has received many prizes including the Gold Medal from the French Academy of Architecture, two “Équerres d’Argent” and the National Grand Prize for Architecture.
Jean Nouvel’s projects transform the landscapes in which they are built, often becoming major urban events in their own right. His unique approach, driven by the specificities of context, program, and site has proven effective in numerous successes around the world.
BIOGRAPHY. Beginning in 1970 and over the next 24 years, Jean Nouvel formed four different partnerships with other French architects, eventually taking the name Architectures Jean Nouvel in 1994. Nouvel began to acquire international recognition for his work in the 1980s, culminating in the critically acclaimed Cartier museum (Paris, 1994).
His career spanning almost fifty years, the Pritzker-prize-winning architect and designer Jean Nouvel has established his status as a world-renowned star architect, but the foundations of such evolution are firmly rooted in the French context.
Aug 12, 2019 · Spotlight: Jean Nouvel. The winner of the Wolf Prize in 2005 and the Pritzker of 2008, French architect Jean Nouvel has attempted to design each of his projects without any preconceived...
