JEAN NOUVEL

Jean Nouvel (Fumel, 1945) studied and started his working life in May 1968 in France. Nouvel was one of the founders of the Mars 196 7 movement, which adopted a very critical position on the prevailing bureaucracy and legal anachronisms in architecture. In the earl y eighties, he won several competitions such as the one for the Institute of the Arab World in Paris and the social housing competit ion the French Government regularly organized at that time, and which led him to build the famous Nemausus blocks in Nimes, along wi th Jean-...[Read more]