Jean Nouvel
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France · Pritzker Prize 2008
French architect who works with light, shadow and reflective materials; his buildings include the Louvre Abu Dhabi and the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris. At Leeum he designed Museum 2, with a skin of rusted stainless steel and black glass.
From Wikipedia
Jean Nouvel (French: [ʒɑ̃ nuvɛl]; born 12 August 1945) is a French architect. Nouvel studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and was a founding member of Mars 1976 and Syndicat de l'Architecture, France’s first labor union for architects. He has obtained a number of prestigious distinctions over the course of his career, including the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (for the Institut du Monde Arabe which Nouvel designed), the Wolf Prize in Arts in 2005 and the Pritzker Prize in 2008. A number of museums and architectural centres have presented retrospectives of his work.
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Buildings in Seoul
- Leeum Museum of Art (2004)