Nouvel's 'Exuberance' Rewarded with Pritzker
This year's Pritzker Prize for Architecture has been awarded to Frenchman Jean Nouvel.
Nouvel first came to international attention in 1987 as the architect of the Institut du Monde Arabe (MIA) in Paris. Over the course of his career, he has designed more than 200 projects worldwide, including the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and a 75-story tower next door to the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
In announcing the jury's choice, Thomas J. Pritzker, chairman of The Hyatt Foundation, explained, "The jury acknowledged the 'persistence, imagination, exuberance, and, above all, an insatiable urge for creative experimentation' as qualities abundant in Nouvel's work."
Previous Pritzker Winners
Pritzker Winner Designs to Serve the Public March 28, 2007
Da Rocha Receives Pritzker Prize for Architecture April 10, 2006
American Wins Architecture's Highest Award March 21, 2005
Zaha Hadid Wins Pritzker Architectural Prize March 22, 2004
Pritzker Prize Winners April 2, 2001
More on Jean Nouvel
New Paris Art Museum Finds Many Critics Aug. 13, 2006
Minneapolis' Guthrie Theater Gets New Home June 25, 2006
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