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Jean Nouvel (born August 12, 1945) is a French architect. August 12 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Architect at his drawing board, 1893 An architect is a person involved in the art of planning, designing and overseeing the construction of buildings, or more generally, the designer of a scheme or plan. ...


Born in Fumel, Lot-et-Garonne département France. He was educated at the Ecole des Beaux-Art in Paris. Lot-et-Garonne is a département in the southwest of France named after the Lot and Garonne rivers. ... The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France, roughly analogous to British counties and are now grouped into 22 metropolitan and four overseas régions. ... École des Beaux Arts refers to several art schools in France. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...


He was a founding member of Mars 1976 and Syndicat de l'Architecture.

Concerthall Lucerne by Jean Nouvel
Concerthall Lucerne by Jean Nouvel

concert hall - lucerne - by jean nouvelkkl File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... concert hall - lucerne - by jean nouvelkkl File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Lucerne (German: Luzern) is a city in Central Switzerland with a population of 60,274 (31 December 2003), capital of the canton of Lucerne. ...

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1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... La Défense, the new skyline of Paris La Défense is a district of high-rise offices, apartment blocks and shopping complexes over part of the communes of Nanterre, Courbevoie and Puteaux (all in the Hauts-de-Seine département), to the west of Paris. ...

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Jean Nouvel - Great Buildings Online (302 words)
Jean Nouvel was born in 1945 at Fumel, a village in the South West of France.
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In 1981 Jean Nouvel won the competition for a series of "great projects" requested by Francois Mitterrand, the French President.
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French new wave architect Jean Nouvel is probably most famous for his L’Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris.
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Jean Nouvel attaches great importance to design that is in harmony with its surroundings, and his aim is to ensure that his architecture merges with the spirit of the place.
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