Jean Nouvel

Pritzker Prize for Architecture Jean Nouvel Winner
Georges Fessy

Institut du Monde Arabe
Paris, France, 1987.
From a distance, the south facade at the Arab World Institute, Nouvel's breakthrough building, looks like a Moorish latticework balcony screen. But on closer inspection it turns out to be....

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