Author: Nouvel, Jean
Title: Jean Nouvel, Volumes One and Two
Description: Italy, Taschen, 2008. Hardcover. A two volume set of white fabric hardback books with debossed text on the front cover and spine. Both have dust jackets featuring different illustrations wrapped around their entirity, and printed white text on the front cover and the spine. Both have a mylar jacket. The end pages are a heavy, textured, white paper. Pagination as follows: Volume one pages: (5), 6-433, (1); Volume two pages: (3), 6-459, (1) Both have hundreds of color images, most of them full-page. Both volumes are trilingual with English, German, and French. The first volume covers 1970 to 1992, and the second covers 1993 to 2008. "Jean Nouvel is widely regarded as France's most original and important contemporary architect. From 1967 to 1970, he assisted influential architects Claude Parent and Paul Virilio, before creating his own practice in Paris. His first widely acclaimed project was the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris (1981-87). Since then he has completed the Lyon Opera House, the Euralille Shopping Center, Lille, and the Fondation Cartier, Paris. His major completed projects since 2000 include the Culture and Convention Center in Lucerne, Switzerland, the spectacular Agbar Tower in Barcelona, the extension of the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, the Quai Branly Museum in Paris, and the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Nouvel won the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) Gold Medal in 2001. Jean Nouvel worked for five years with author Philip Jodidio on this prodigiously illustrated Tasechen monograph, a book commensurate with the architect's talent. VG: Exlibrary books with stickers at the base of the spine on the dust jacket. Ownership stamps on top text block and front and back free end papers. Otherwise in excellent condition, and appear as though they were rarely, if ever, taken from the shelf.

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