The 2008 Pritzker Prize winner explores his career to date
The work of France's most unique and internationally celebrated contemporary architect in a book designed by the master himself. Limited to 1,000 signed and numbered copies packaged in a translucent plexiglass slipcase reminiscent of the translucent facades often seen in Jean Nouvel designs.
Recipient of the 2008 Pritzker Prize, Jean Nouvel is without any doubt France's most original and important contemporary architect. From 1967 to 1970, he was an assistant of the influential architects Claude Parent and Paul Virilio, then creating his own office in Paris. His first widely acclaimed project was the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris (1981-87, with Architecture Studio). Since then he has completed the Lyon Opera House (1986-93), the Euralille Shopping Center, Lille (1991-94), and the Fondation Cartier, Paris (1991-94). His major completed projects since 2000 include the Culture and Convention Center in Lucerne, Switzerland (1998-2000), the spectacular Agbar Tower on Barcelona's Diagonal Avenue (2001-03), the extension of the Reina Sofia Museum, (Madrid, 1999-2005), the Quai Branly Museum on the Seine in Paris (2001-06), and the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Apart from receiving this year's Pritzker Prize, Jean Nouvel won the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architecture) Gold Medal in 2001.
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