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Jean Nouvel

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Nouvel has received more than 663,638 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Jean Nouvel is the 49th most popular architect (up from 62nd in 2019), the 665th most popular biography from France (up from 764th in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Architect.

Jean Nouvel is most famous for designing the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, France.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Jean Nouvel ranks 49 out of 518. Before him are Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Michelozzo, Vladimir Tatlin, Arne Jacobsen, Ferdinand Cheval, and Arnolfo di Cambio. After him are Jørn Utzon, Christopher Wren, Álvaro Siza Vieira, Giacomo della Porta, Richard Meier, and Guarino Guarini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Jean Nouvel ranks 37. Before him are Ian Gillan, Adly Mansour, Anselm Kiefer, Mia Farrow, Lemmy, and Slobodan Praljak. After him are Mahmoud al-Zahar, Goldie Hawn, Jacky Ickx, Neil Young, Jacqueline du Pré, and John Lithgow.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Nouvel ranks 665 out of 6,770. Before him are René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683), Raoul Dufy (1877), Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786), Aristide Maillol (1861), Hubert de Givenchy (1927), and Georges Sorel (1847). After him are Nicolas Fouquet (1615), Édouard Lalo (1823), Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus (-90), Margaret of Burgundy, Queen of France (1290), Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (1528), and Roger Guillemin (1924).

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Among ARCHITECTS In France

Among architects born in France, Jean Nouvel ranks 5. Before him are Georges-Eugène Haussmann (1809), André Le Nôtre (1613), Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814), and Ferdinand Cheval (1836). After him are Louis Le Vau (1612), François Mansart (1598), Jules Hardouin-Mansart (1646), Charles Garnier (1825), Pierre Lescot (1515), Hector Guimard (1867), and Claude Perrault (1613).

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