Nouvel

Nouvel

<div class="margin-bottom" id="description_text_headlines"> <div> <strong>Nouvel vague: France's leading architect</strong></div> <div>  </div> </div> <div class="description_text"> <div class="margin-bottom" id="description_text"> Jean Nouvel, winner of the 2008 Pritzker Prize, is widely regarded as <strong>France€s most original and important contemporary architect</strong>. From 1967 to 1970 he assisted influential architects Claude Parent and Paul Virilio, before creating his own practice in Paris. His first widely acclaimed project was the <strong>Institut du Monde Arabe </strong>in Paris (1981€“87). Since then he has completed the <strong>Lyon Opera House</strong> and the <strong>Fondation Cartier</strong>, Paris. His major completed projects since 2000 include the <strong>Culture and Convention Center in Lucerne</strong>, Switzerland, the spectacular <strong>Agbar Tower</strong> in Barcelona, the<strong> Quai Branly Museum</strong> in Paris, the <strong>Guthrie Theater</strong> in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the <strong>Hotel Sofitel Vienna Stephansdom</strong> with shopping mall. Jean Nouvel was the 2001 recipient of the RIBA Royal Gold Medal for Architecture. In his citation, Peter Cook said of Nouvel: "In an age of blandness, imitation, or doubt, his work shines through as having both clarity and finesse, originality and lyricism."</div> <div class="margin-bottom">  </div> <div class="margin-bottom" id="series_text" style="display: block;"> <strong>About the Series:</strong><br /> Each book in TASCHEN€s Basic Architecture Series features:<ul> <li>an introduction to the life and work of the architect</li> <li>the major works in chronological order</li> <li>information about the clients, architectural preconditions as well as construction problems and resolutions</li> <li>a list of all the selected works and a map indicating the locations of the best and most famous buildings</li> <li>approximately 120 illustrations (photographs, sketches, drafts and plans)</li> </ul> </div> </div>