Dominique Perrault (born 9 April 1953 in

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) is a French

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and urban planner. He became world known for the design of the

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, distinguished with the Silver medal for town planning in 1992 and the Mies van der Rohe Prize in 1996. In 2010 he was awarded the gold medal by the French Academy of Architecture for all his work. He was named as the 2015

Praemium Imperiale Prince Takamatsu The Praemium Imperiale ( ja, 高松宮殿下記念世界文化賞, Takamatsu-no-miya Denka Kinen Sekai Bunka-shō, World Culture Prize in Memory of His Imperial Highness Prince Takamatsu) is an international art prize inaugur ...

Laureate for Architecture. He received his Diploma in Architecture at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1978. He also holds a postgraduate diplomas in Town Planning from the Ecole supérieure des Ponts et Chaussée and History from the

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. He currently heads Dominique Perrault Architecture (DPA) in

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Biography

Leading figure of French architecture, Dominique Perrault is Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, a lecturer in France and abroad and a member of the Conseil scientifique de l’Atelier International du Grand Paris since 2012. After winning the competition of the

Bibliothèque Nationale de France The Bibliothèque nationale de France (, 'National Library of France'; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites known respectively as ''Richelieu'' and ''François-Mitterrand''. It is the national repository ...

in 1989, he realized, amongst other projects, the Olympic Velodrome and Olympic swimming pool in Berlin, the fourth and fifth extension of the seat of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg, the Olympic Tennis Stadium in Madrid, the Ewha Womans University or the Fukoku Tower in Osaka. His work is exhibited in major museums around the world. A solo exhibition showing all of his work was held at the

Centre Georges Pompidou The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou ( en, National Georges Pompidou Centre of Art and Culture), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of ...

in Paris in 2008. He was also appointed Commissioner of the French pavilion architecture section of the Venice Biennale in 2010. Dominique Perrault leads in parallel significant heritage rehabilitation projects including those of Longchamp Racecourse in Paris, Dufour Pavilion at

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and La Poste du Louvre in Paris. In spring 2014, Dominique Perrault inaugurated the tallest tower of Austria in Vienna, the DC Tower 1, icon of the new business district and the Grand Théâtre des Cordelier

in the historical city of

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, south of France.

Approach

Four specific conceptual features were highlighted by the University of Architecture and Urbanism in Bucharest in May 2013 who granted Dominique Perrault the title of "Doctor Honoris Causa". "The first feature, which is tightly connected to an imperative need of enriching the architectural language, regards the eloquent interpretation of some sources coming from artistic minimalism and conceptual art. With Dominique Perrault, th
architectural design
vocabulary is heading towards a reduction of syntax, not of morphology. The second concerns his open, flexible approach that accepts uncertainties and rejects dogmatism and the critique of the privileged role of style and composition in the modern architectural discourse. The third feature highlights the idea of how architecture should be understood as a part of landscape within the topography of fundamental relations. The fourth emphasizes his experience with space and materiality. Being inspired by the lesson of modernism, the curtain façades, detached from structure and enhanced by light, transparent or translucent screens of glass or metal seem to be a tribute to contemporary technologies, yet are not subservient to them. Innovation often penetrates the engineering level." According to Frederic Migayrou, "All of Dominique Perrault’s work questions the figural aspect of architecture, its ability to provide meaning, to build a dynamic image woven out of social and cultural values. ��Dominique Perrault weaves his position between rationalism that seeks to articulate laws for the composition of typological elements, and a structuralist understanding of architectural syntax, thereby increasing the possibilities of interplay between very disparate scales of symbolic values." At the crossroads of disciplines, Luis Fernandez-Galiano reminds that "it is frequent to describe Perrault’s work in terms of the great tradition of French geometric monumentality; it is inevitable to relate his bold gestures in this area with that affirmative urbanism which treats nature as voluntary geography; and it is necessary to interpret the almost innocent simplicity of his fundamental drawings in the light of the conceptual or minimal practices which extend up to the limits of ‘land art’ and ‘arte povera’.

Built projects

* 1981-1983 : Someloir factory,

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, France) * 1983-1986 : Housing estate «Les Caps Horniers», Rezé-lès-Nantes, France * 1984-1987:

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– Academy for engineers of electronics and electrical engineering,

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, France * 1986-1990: Multi-storey industrial building « Hôtel Industriel Jean-Baptiste Berlier »,

, France * 1987-1993: Water processing plant for SAGEP,

Ivry-sur-Seine Ivry-sur-Seine () is a commune in the Val-de-Marne department in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. Paris's main Asian district, the Quartier Asiatique in the 13th arrondissement, borders the ...

, France * 1988-1991: Conference center Usinor-Sacilor, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France * 1988-1991: Apartment building «Le Louis Lumière», Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France * 1988-1994: Meuse Department Headquarters,

Bar-le-Duc Bar-le-Duc (), formerly known as Bar, is a commune in the Meuse département, of which it is the capital. The department is in Grand Est in northeastern France. The lower, more modern and busier part of the town extends along a narrow valley, ...

, France * 1989-1993: Mayenne Departmental Archives, Laval, France * 1989-1995:

, Paris, France * 1991 : Galerie Denise René, Paris, France * 1992-1999: Olympic Velodrome and Olympic swimming pool,

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitu ...

, Germany * 1993-1995: Technical center of books, Bussy Saint-Georges, France * 1995-1997: The Great Greenhouse for the ''Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie'', Paris, France * 1996-2004:

Innsbruck Town Hall Innsbruck Town Hall is the building of the local government of the city of Innsbruck, Austria. The first building to house the local government was built in 1358, and was the first town hall in Tyrol, now known as ''Altes Rathaus''. In 1897 the cit ...

, Austria * 1996-2019: Fourth and fifth extensions of the EU's Palais de la Cour de Justice, Luxembourg * 1997-1999: APLIX factory- Industrial manufacturing unit, Le Cellier,

Nantes Nantes (, , ; Gallo: or ; ) is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 314,138 in Nantes proper and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabita ...

, France * 1997-2001: Lucie Aubrac Multimedia Library, Vénissieux, France * 1998-2007: Montigalà sport complex, Badalona,

Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ...

, Spain * 1999-2003: Three supermarkets for MPREIS group, Wattens,

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, Austria * 1999-2004: Piazza Gramsci, Cinisello Balsamo,

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city ...

, Italy * 1999-2008: ME Barcelona Hotel, Barcelona, Spain * 1999-2009: Hines office building, Barcelona, Spain * 2000-2002: Parking garage Emile Durkheim, Paris, France * 2001-2004: GKD-USA Factory, Cambridge, Maryland, USA * 2002-2005: Café Lichtblick, terrace of town hall,

Innsbruck Innsbruck (; bar, Innschbruck, label=Austro-Bavarian ) is the capital of Tyrol and the fifth-largest city in Austria. On the River Inn, at its junction with the Wipp Valley, which provides access to the Brenner Pass to the south, it had a p ...

, Austria * 2002-2009: Olympic Tennis Stadium, Manzanares Park,

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...

, Spain * 2004: Design of Friedrich-Ebert-Platz,

Düren Düren (; ripuarian: Düre) is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, between Aachen and Cologne on the river Rur. History Roman era The area of Düren was part of Gallia Belgica, more specifically the territory of the Eburones, a peopl ...

, Germany * 2004-2006: Nô Theater, Niigata, Japan * 2004-2007: Factory Rehabilitation for Dominique Perrault Architecture, Paris, France * 2004-2008: Ewha Womans University,

Seoul Seoul (; ; ), officially known as the Seoul Special City, is the Capital city, capital and largest metropolis of South Korea.Before 1972, Seoul was the ''de jure'' capital of the North Korea, Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea ...

, South Korea * 2004-2014: DC Towers 1, Donau City,

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, Austria * 2005-2009: Office building, Boulogne Billancourt, France * 2005-2008: Priory Park pavilion,

Reigate Reigate ( ) is a town in Surrey, England, around south of central London. The settlement is recorded in Domesday Book in 1086 as ''Cherchefelle'' and first appears with its modern name in the 1190s. The earliest archaeological evidence for huma ...

, United Kingdom * 2005-2009: Metropolitan Hotel,

Perpignan Perpignan (, , ; ca, Perpinyà ; es, Perpiñán ; it, Perpignano ) is the prefecture of the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France, in the heart of the plain of Roussillon, at the foot of the Pyrenees a few kilometres from the ...

, France * 2005-2012: Housing, offices and shops, Zac Euralille 2,

Lille Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France region, the prefecture of the No ...

, France * 2006-2009: Office building, Onix, Lille, France * 2006-2009: NH- Fiera Milano 4 star Hotel, Milan, Italy * 2006-2010: Fukoku Tower,

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, Japan * 2006-2012:

Rouen Rouen (, ; or ) is a city on the River Seine in northern France. It is the prefecture of the region of Normandy and the department of Seine-Maritime. Formerly one of the largest and most prosperous cities of medieval Europe, the population ...

Sports Palace, France * 2007-2010: Krisztina Palace Facades,

Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population o ...

, Hungary * 2007-2011: Housing and offices «La Liberté»,

Groningen Groningen (; gos, Grunn or ) is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen (province), Groningen province in the Netherlands. The ''capital of the north'', Groningen is the largest place as well as the economic and cultural centre of t ...

, Netherlands * 2007-2014: B&B hotel,

, France * 2008-2011: Arganzuela footbridge, Madrid, Spain * 2009: Sammode office building, Paris, France * 2009-2011: Residential complex, Jeju Island, South Korea * 2009-2014:

Grand Theater, France * 2011 : Installation «Open Box» for the

Gwangju Gwangju () is South Korea's sixth-largest metropolis. It is a designated metropolitan city under the direct control of the central government's Home Minister. The city was also the capital of South Jeolla Province until the provincial offic ...

Biennale, South Korea * 2011-2013: BnF MK2 – Commercial development of the

, site François Mitterrand, Paris, France * 2011-2013: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Rehabilitation / extension of the former Library (BI), Lausanne, Switzerland

Main current projects

* 2013-2023: Villejuif IGR Station /

Grand Paris Express Grand Paris Express is a group of new rapid transit lines being built in the Île-de-France region of France. The project comprises four new lines for Paris Métro, plus extensions of existing Lines 11 and 14. A total of of new track and 68 ...

, France * 2013-2018: Construction of mixed-use buildings, Zürich, Switzerland * 2012-2018: Repurposing of La Poste du Louvre building, Paris, France * 2009-2018: Urban redevelopment of the main station area, Locarno, Switzerland * 2005-2018: Construction of the Convention Centre and Exhibition Hall,

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, Spain * 2011-2017: Refurbishment of the

Longchamp Racecourse The Longchamp Racecourse (french: Hippodrome de Longchamp) is a 57 hectare horse-racing facility located on the Route des Tribunes at the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, France. It is used for flat racing and is noted for its variety of interlaced ...

, Paris, France * 2011-2016: Rehabilitation and extension of the M&E hall, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland * 2004-2016: Piazza Garibaldi, Naples, Italy * 2004-2016: Vienna DC Towers, Vienna, Austria * 2012-2015: Esplanade Tower, Fribourg, Switzerland * 2011-2015: Repurposing of the Pavillon Dufour,

Château de Versailles The Palace of Versailles ( ; french: Château de Versailles ) is a former royal residence built by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about west of Paris, France. The palace is owned by the French Republic and since 1995 has been managed ...

, France * 2007-2015: Refurbishment of the Pont de Sèvres towers, Boulogne-Billancourt, France

Cancelled project

* The New

Mariinsky Theatre The Mariinsky Theatre ( rus, Мариинский театр, Mariinskiy teatr, also transcribed as Maryinsky or Mariyinsky) is a historic theatre of opera and ballet in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Opened in 1860, it became the preeminent music th ...

, St Petersburg, Russia - the project won the competition in 2003 but was cancelled in 2007 because of disagreement on the construction process between Perrault and Russian bureaucrats.

References

External links

Official site

Interview with the Russian architecture Journal Speech
(in English and Russian) {{DEFAULTSORT:Perrault, Dominique 1953 births Living people Architects from Clermont-Ferrand 20th-century French architects 21st-century French architects Postmodern architects Modernist architecture in France Theatre architects Members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne faculty Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Officiers of the Légion d'honneur Recipients of the Praemium Imperiale