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Designing prestigious buildings and spectacular projects, Jean Nouvel (°1945) earned widespread international acclaim and recognition. He is now considered to be one of the foremost architects of the turn of the century. Just some of his high-profile accomplishments include the Tokio Opera House, Saint-James Hotel in Bouliac, the Cartier building in Paris, the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, the Lyon Opera House.
Jean Nouvel is often labeled a high-tech architect, although he prefers to think of himself as a modernist. Technology but not strictly for the sake of technology, technology as a means to accomplish the "aesthetic miracle". Technology at the service of emotion, of symbolism. |
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