Architect Jean Nouvel

Jean Nouvel

Living place: France

Birthday: 12-8-1945 (79 years old)

Global rank: #60606

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Who is Architect Jean Nouvel?
Awarded the Pritzker Prize in 2008 for her work on over 200 projects; co-founded Mars 1976 and Syndicat de l'Architecture. He was also awarded the Wolf Prize in Art in 2005, and the Institut du Monde Arabe he designed was awarded the Aga Khan Prize for Architecture.
His best known works include the Institute of the Arab World in Paris and the Guthrie Theater in Minnesota.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris; His first prize was from the national competition, the École nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. He was an assistant to architects Claude Parent and Paul Virilio from 1967 to 1970.

Family life info

His parents, Renée and Roger Nouvel, were both teachers and were living in Fumel, Lot-et-Garonne, France, when he was born. They moved a lot because of their father's position with the district as the Superintendent of Education. His decision to study architecture was a compromise with his parents, who were unsure of his desire to study art and wanted him to go into engineering and education.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Architect Jean Nouvel?
He and Le Corbusier both became world-renowned French architects.

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When was Architect Jean Nouvel born?
Jean Nouvel birthday 12-8-1945 (at the age of 79).
Where is Architect Jean Nouvel's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Jean Nouvel was born in France. is a Architect, whose Zodiac is Leo, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Rooster. Jean Nouvel's global rank is 60606 and whose rank is 60 in list of famous Architect.
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Events in 1945 and 12-8

Events in the world in the birth year of Jean Nouvel

  • Yalta Conference (Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin) plans final defeat of Germany (Feb).
  • Hitler commits suicide (April 30); Germany surrenders (May 7); May 8 is declared V-E Day. Background: World War II
  • San Francisco Conference establishes the United Nations (April–June).
  • Potsdam Conference (Truman, Churchill, Stalin) establishes basis of German reconstruction (July–Aug.).
  • US drops atomic bombs on Japanese cities of Hiroshima (Aug. 6) and Nagasaki (Aug. 9). Background: nuclear weapons
  • Japan signs official surrender on V-J Day (Sept. 2).

Birthday Jean Nouvel (12-8) in history

  • Day 12-8 year 1624: Cardinal Richelieu was named head of state of France by King Louis XIII.
  • Day 12-8 year 1851: Issac Singer patented the sewing machine.
  • Day 12-8 year 1865: British surgeon Joseph Lister became the first doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery.
  • Day 12-8 year 1898: Hawaii was formally annexed to the United States.
  • Day 12-8 year 1972: The last American combat troops left Vietnam.
  • Day 12-8 year 1985: In the world's worst single-aircraft disaster, a Japan Air Lines 747 crashed into Mount Osutaka, killing 520 of the 524 aboard.
  • Day 12-8 year 1998: Swiss banks agreed to pay $1.25 billion to settle lawsuits brought by Holocaust survivors and their heirs. The banks had kept millions of dollars deposited by Holocaust victims before and during World War II.
  • Day 12-8 year 2000: The Russian military submarine, Kursk, and its crew were lost in the Barents Sea.
  • Day 12-8 year 2004: N.J. governor James McGreevey announced his resignation.
  • Day 12-8 year 2013: Notorious Boston gangster James (Whitey) Bulger was found guilty of 31 of the 32 charges he faced, including murder, extortion, money laundering, drug dealing and possession of weapons.
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