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BIOGRAPHY
• Born in 1945 at Fumel, south west of france.
• Worked with an architectural firm while attending
school
• When he was 23, he worked for Claude Perret
who used to work with Le Corbusier.
• Claude Perret and Paul Virilo, a philosopher,
inspired Jean to bypass the boring post-
modernism and revival-modernism
• At the age of 30, he opened his own office and
started practicing on his own.
• After this, he won competitions for lots of projects
which made him famous.
 STYLE
• “there is no building that I
particularly like or that
represents what I call
modern architecture.”
• “there is no building that I particularly like or that
represents what I call modern architecture.”
• Nouvel’s idea is always to bring new architecture by being
based on traditional trends.
• Nouvel places enormous importance on designing a
building harmonious with its site and surrounding.
• With in nearly all his works, he consistently presents an
interplay of transparency, shadow and light.
 Famous works
• The institute of Monde
Arab (France, paris
1980’s)
“a building that offered architecture a
way out of the dead end of post
modernism while proving that a
building could be modern without
having to be modernist”
• The project was encouraged by the french
Photo, courtyard entry and facade overview
president.

• Its purpose is to foster knowledge of arab world culture by the exchange of

information on the arts, science and modern technology.
• The whole effect is like a giant Islamic pierced screen giving significance and
an audacious brilliance to the building.
Museum at Quay Branly Paris France 2000
• The site is unique and strange place, poeitic and disturbing.
• While their function remain, Nouvel desapeared them from our view
and from our consicence to allow communication.
• To achieve this, he used the latest techniques.
Concert hall Lucerne,
Switherland 1992-98
• His project emerged victorious in the
1989 international competition.
• It contained multipurpose hall,
conference centre and museum of art.
• “if I cannot go to the water, the water
shall come to me.”
• In the diagonal, the cantilever extends
approximatley 45 meters.
• The treatment of the façade is a play of
contrast between opacity and
transparency.
• Coated white walls and the heavy
pivoting panels are found in the interior.
• Jean Nouvel says “the room approaches
us.”
• It expresses a dramatic break with
tradition of the ancient city of Lucerne.
 FURNITURE WORKS

Luzern
stool

moss Milana chair

 Awards
• “Grand prix de architecture” (1987) a series
of "great projects" requested by Francois
Mitterrand, the French President
• “Equerre d’argent” .(1987)
on minimal furnitures he designed
• Presigious royal gold medal for
architecture.
• Aga Khan Award (1989)
 CRITICS
• “Nouvel has maintained the highest of architectural
standards and has consistently brought excellence to
design in a wide range of cultural and commercial
buildings in his native country and abroad.”
• “Jean Nouvel is simply a wonderful designer. In an age of
blandness, imitation, or doubt, his work shines through as
having both clarity and finesse, originality and lyricism.”
 Conclusion
• Jean Nouvel is an architect who is bringing
new tradition of architecture in to our world
• He is also known for setting up
experimental groups like “ Mars”, “ The
sendicat de l’architecture.”