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Jean Nouvel

Jean Nouvel

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Jean Nouvel is a French architect. He founded in 1970 his first studio with François Seigneur. Thanks to the meeting with the critic Georges Boudaille, he became architect of the Paris Biennale. In 1976, he met the stage designer Jacques Le Marquet who made him discover the world of theatre and staging. Jean Nouvel has always taken positions of militancy, sometimes polemic about the problems and decisions about architecture and the city. In 1976 he is cofounder of the French architects ' Movement on March 1976. The following year he co-founded the Sindicato of Architecture and one of the main organizers of the International Consultation for the upgrading of the Quartier des Halles in Paris. Founded in 1980 the biennial of architecture within the Paris Biennale. Nouvel has won numerous architectural and design awards. In 1980 he was granted the silver medal of the Académie d'architecture. In 1983 he was appointed Doctor honorary causa from the University of Buenos Aires. In 1987 he received the "Grand Prix d'architecture " at the entirety of his work and the "Equerre d'argent " for his creations of minimalist furniture. His works have been exhibited in several international museums such as the National Museum of the Reina Sofía Art Center in Madrid, the Museum of Modern Art Exposeum or the centre of Art and Culture centre Pompidou in Paris. In 2008 he was awarded the Pritzker Prize.

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