Article: Jean Nouvel, French risk-taker, wins architecture's top prize

Robin Pogrebin The New York Times Media Group
International Herald Tribune
03-31-2008
Jean Nouvel, French risk-taker, wins architecture's top prize
Byline: Robin Pogrebin The New York Times Media Group
Edition: 5
Section: NEWS

Jean Nouvel, the bold French architect known for such wildly diverse projects as the exotically louvered Arab World Institute in Paris and the muscular Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, has received architecture's top honor, the Pritzker Prize.

Nouvel, 62, is the second French citizen to take the prize, awarded annually to a living architect by a jury chosen by the Hyatt Foundation. His selection is to be announced Monday.
"For over 30 years Jean Nouvel has pushed ...

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