Like a maestro conducting the Paris Philharmonic (2012), the Lyon Opera (1993), or the DR Koncerthuset of Copenhagen (2009), the leading French architect (born in 1945) has a clear propensity for the Arts, as his profession leads him to.
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| Jean Nouvel@quotationof.com |
This is so obvious that foundations and world museums have requested his talents to turn the table of all arts to angles never dreamed of before. His performance is already quite remarkable: the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris (1980), the Reina Sofia National Museum of Madrid (1992), the Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul (2004), the Cartier Foundation in Paris (2014), the Louvre Abu Dhabi (2017), and his latest achievement the National Museum of Qatar (2019).
It would be wrong to believe that it only deals with music or art. Jean Nouvel also designed theaters, culture centers, hospitals, city halls, railway stations, congress halls. His achievements are not only located in Paris or overseas. Many leading French cities have also used his talents, such as Lyon, Marseilles, Montpellier, Nantes or Perpignan.
And of course, like many other leading world architects, it includes as well some incredible modern buildings bearing his special touch: the Agbar Tower in Barcelona (1999), or in many other urban communities like New York City, Cologne, Doha, Tokyo (Dentsu Tower, 2002), Vienna (Uniqa Tower, 2010), Nicosia (Cyprus) as well as the latest ongoing construction, the Hekla Tower in Paris-La Défense.
Architects have played a major role in the history of the world. In the Antiquity, we still retain the
concept of the Seven Wonders. Many of our world's major landmarks are the work of past architects that have left testimonies of former cultures: the Temples and Pyramids of Egypt, the Maya or Aztec pyramids of Mexico, the Inca Machu Picchu, Baalbek or Petra, the Taj Mahal, Angkor Wat, the Great Wall of China, the cathedrals of Europe, Versailles, and so many other monuments, which stand as a reminder of brilliant past civilizations.
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| The Freemason's Temple of Salomon |
The testimony of the spirit of tradition is kept by Freemasons, whose philosophy is based on an age-old tradition of builders for whom The Temple of Jerusalem remains an ongoing construction.
Modern architecture plays a similar role, and we are fortunate to be able to perpetuate this old tradition thanks to the inspiration of architects such as Jean Nouvel.
Christian Sorand
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