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Bios
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Jean Nouvel, architect and French designer of recognised prestige, was born in Fumel (France) on 12 August 1945 and, during his career, created his own architectural language.
He studied architecture and design in the Escuela Nacional Superior de Bellas Artes (National Superior School of Fine Arts) of Paris and, on having ended, opened an architects' office together with two associates. Later, in 1994, he founded his own study. He was a co-founder of the architectural French movement Mars 1976 and of the Syndicate of the Architecture.
Since the beginning, he rejected modernism, the post-modernism and the guidelines of Le Corbusier and, for each of his works, he began from zero. The result is that his projects do not continue a preconceived line but they differ very much between each other.
The author, in Barcelona, of works as representative as the Agbar Tower or new creations like Poblenou Park, only continues a unique scheme: to integrate his buildings in the environment, and to highlight the transparency and the light.
His important architectural trajectory has turned out to be rewarded with an endless number of awards, between which the emphasis being the Silver Medal of Académie d'Architecture (1980), the appointment as Gentleman of the Order of the Arts and the Lettering of France (1983), Grand Prix d'Architecture (1987), the Award of the Foundation Wolf of the Arts of Jerusalés (2005) and very recently, in 2008, the Award Pritzker, considered the Nobel Prize of the architecture.
One of his most well-known works is the Institute of the Arab World of Paris, in whose façade there is a series of diaphragms that are opened and closed according to the intensity of the exterior light. This way, it becomes possible to keep the interior light practically constant and they plan to form, that remember Arab ornaments, of the diaphragms.
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