Product Description: Renowned French architect Jean Nouvel designed the Serpentine Gallery's pavilion for 2010, and created a commanding, eye-catching all-red structure designed to mimic the moment "when the summer sun catches you full in the eyes and, as you blink, the world dissolves into red...read more

Product Description: Jean Prouvé's Ferembal House was built in Nancy, France, in 1948, as the office for a can factory. Composed of five axial frames clad with wooden panels, set on a tall masonry base and occupying less than 600 square feet in a single raised story, this prefabricated structure was a classic example of Prouvé's advocacy of mobile architecture...read more

Product Description: France's premier architect designs his own monograph.The work of France's internationally celebrated contemporary architect and recipient of the 2008 Pritzker Prize in a book designed by the master himself. Jean Nouvel is widely regarded as France s most original and important contemporary architect...read more

Product Description: "In 2005, more than ever, architecture is annihilating places, banalizing them, violating them. Sometimes it replaces the landscape, creates it in its own image, which is nothing but another way of effacing it At a time when we rush across the world faster and faster, when we listen to and watch the same global networks, share feelings about the same disasters, when we dance to the same hits, watch the same matches, when they flood us with the same films, in which the star is global, when the president of one country wants to rule the world, when we shop in cloned shopping centers, work behind the same eternal curtain walls and when whatever good might come of this forms no part of global priorities the global economy is accentuating the effects of the dominant architecture, the type that claims Iwe don't need context...read more

Product Description: Limited to 1,000 signed and numbered copies packaged in a translucent plexiglass slipcase reminiscent of the translucent facades often seen in Jean Nouvel designs. Jean Nouvel worked for over five years with author Philip Jodidio on this new, prodigiously illustrated TASCHEN monograph, a book that will finally give the full measure of the architect's talent...read more

Product Description: What is a singular object? An idea, a building, a color, a sentiment, a human being. Each in turn comes under scrutiny in this exhilarating dialogue between two of the most interesting thinkers working in philosophy and architecture today...read more

Product Description: Born in 1945, Jean Nouvel earned a place for himself amongst the very best in modern architecture with his Nemasus residential building, the Institut de Monnde Arabe in Paris (both in 1987), the Lyon Opera House (1993), the Cartier Foundation in Paris (1994) and the Galeries Lafayette in Berlin (1996) The concert hall in Lucerne was opened in August 1998...read more

Product Description: Since his stunning Institut du Monde Arabe opened in Paris in 1987, French architect Jean Nouvel has designed widely published buildings throughout Europe. This superbly illustrated volume--the first book to be published on Nouvel since the establishment of his new firm, Architectures Jean Nouvel--features approximately twenty-five built and forthcoming projects, including his most important commission to date: his Concert Hall in Lucerne, Switzerland, scheduled to open in August 1998...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Artwork by Steven Holl, Jean Nouvel. Contributions by Hans Kollhoff.