ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 374

Sun Apr 6 23:49:44 PDT 2008

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JEAN NOUVEL PRITZKER PRIZE
    by Kevin Matthews
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	In a world where so much contemporary construction is so
	repetitively mundane, in the majority, and so
	dissociatively egotistical, in the contrasting minority,
	it is a deepening pleasure to celebrate  poetically
	bold, eloquently sensitive, contextually beautiful work.

	And that's just the celebration we find in the 2008
	Pritzker Prize award to Jean Nouvel of France.

	Recent commentaries have described Jean Nouvel as an
	architect who is constantly experimenting. I don't see
	it quite that way. From my corner, Jean Nouvel looks
	like an architect who is constantly designing.

	Nouvel's inspiring buildings are constantly variable,
	but not so much by constant experiments. Rather,
	informed by place and program, Nouvel's architectural
	concepts draw on a wide-ranging and open-ended bag of
	aesthetic, spatial, material, theatrical, and
	observational devices.

	These devices evolve and expand across Nouvel's body of
	work, but in his most exemplary buildings, the ideas are
	very finely worked out indeed. And his designs are
	conceived with a profound depth of talent in selecting,
	orchestrating, and deploying his chosen architectural
	effects. The work is consistently fresh, giving a real
	sense of ongoing investigation. 

	But each project is also much more true to its situation
	in place and time than if the essence of the method were
	experimental.
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People and Places
    by Nancy Novitski
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	Ralph Rapson in Minneapolis, Minnesota - Neil M. Denari
	Architects and collaborators in New York, New York -
	Nader Khalili in Hesperia, California -
	Bartels-Pagliaro Architects in Stamford, Connecticut -
	[merz] project in Phoenix, Arizona - Thornton Tomasetti
	in New York, New York - Foster + Partners and Itten +
	Brechb,hl in Zurich, Switzerland - Lifschutz Davidson
	Sandilands in Milan, Italy - DES Architects + Engineers
	in San Diego, California...
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Works of Jean Nouvel
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	Buildings and Projects by Jean Nouvel, listed
	chronologically:
	 Plateau Beaubourg, at Paris, France, 1971.
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