Jean Nouvel Wins Pritzker Prize

The French architect will be awarded the Pritzker Prize Monday -- the top prize in the field of architecture.

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March 30, 2008, 1:00 PM PDT

"Mr. Nouvel, 62, is the second French citizen to take the prize, awarded annually to a living architect by a jury chosen by the Hyatt Foundation. His selection is to be announced Monday."

"'For over 30 years Jean Nouvel has pushed architecture's discourse and praxis to new limits,' the Pritzker jury said in its citation. 'His inquisitive and agile mind propels him to take risks in each of his projects, which, regardless of varying degrees of success, have greatly expanded the vocabulary of contemporary architecture.'"

"In extending that vocabulary Mr. Nouvel has defied easy categorization. His buildings have no immediately identifiable signature, like the curves of Frank Gehry or the light-filled atriums of Renzo Piano. But each is strikingly distinctive, be it the Agbar Tower in Barcelona (2005), a candy-colored office tower that suggests a geyser, or his KKL cultural and congress center in Lucerne, Switzerland (2000), with a slim copper roof cantilevered delicately over Lake Lucerne."

FULL STORY: French Architect Wins Pritzker Prize

Monday, March 31, 2008 in The New York Times

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