Jean Nouvel is a French architect. Nouvel studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and was a founding member of Mars 1976 and Syndicat de l'Architecture, France’s first labor union for architects. He has obtained a number of prestigious distinctions over the course of his career, including the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the Wolf Prize in Arts in 2005 and the Pritzker Prize in 2008. A number of museums and architectural centres have presented retrospectives of his work.
Nouvel in 2009
Torre Aigües de Barcelona (Agbar), Barcelona
Steel Matte silverware for Georg Jensen (2005)
Culture and Convention Center (2000) in Lucerne
Aga Khan Award for Architecture
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture (AKAA) is an architectural prize established by Aga Khan IV in 1977. It aims to identify and reward architectural concepts that successfully address the needs and aspirations of Muslim societies in the fields of contemporary design, social housing, community development and improvement, restoration, reuse and area conservation, as well as landscape design and improvement of the environment.
Conservation of Sidi Bou Saïd, Tunis
Mughal Sheraton Hotel, Agra
Nail Çakirhan Residence, Akyaka Village, Turkey
Azem Palace, Damascus, Syria