Jean Nouvel was born in December 1955 in Le Puy, France. He studied architecture at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-La Villette. In 1980, he was awarded a master's degree from the School of Architecture at the University of London and a doctorate from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. In 1981, he founded his eponymous architectural office in Paris and he has been a professor at Harvard University since 1982
Since 1992, Jean Nouvel has been a Professor of Architecture at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-La Villette. From 1989 to 1991, he directed the Académie Européenne d'Architecture in Rome. In 1994, he was named architect laureate of France by President François Mitterrand and in 1995, Jean Nouvel received the Pritzker Prize for architecture.
The following year, he was also awarded the Gold Medal by the Academy of Arts and Letters. Jean Nouvel's firm has designed a number of significant buildings around the world including: The Louvre Abu Dhabi (2004), Beaubourg Centrum (2007), Musée du Quai Branly (2008), The Cité de la Musique (2009), La Grande Arche de La Défense (2010), and Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Castello Sforzesco (2011).
My buildings are more famous than me.Jean Nouvel
Each new situation requires a new architecture.Jean Nouvel
I think architecture has to be a gift.Jean Nouvel
I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.Jean Nouvel
It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.Jean Nouvel
Art should be created for life, not for the museum.Jean Nouvel
