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From: Architexturez-IN <admin-in@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:24:51 +0530
Architexturez-IN wrote:
Jean Nouvel has it - if you haven't heard it already from the
unprecedented coverage in media.
The Pritzker Prize, which this year was awarded to French architect Jean
Nouvel, is often referred to as the Nobel Prize of architecture. It is
an inaccurate analogy. Nobel Prizes, whether in literature, chemistry,
or physics, are given to individuals for individual work; buildings are
the result of teamwork. Sometimes Nobels are awarded to small teams of
scientists, and researchers do have assistants, but not 140 of them,
which is the size of Ateliers Jean Nouvel, whose head office is in Paris
but which maintains site offices in London, Madrid, Barcelona, Rome, and
Minneapolis.
cont'd....
http://www.slate.com/id/2187868/