Jean Nouvel is a French architect who is one of the brightest and most sought-after world architectural celebrities of our time. He is both an innovator whose ideas are admired for their courage, and a modern classic whose authority and skill are indisputable in a professional environment. The works of this architect adorn the cities of Europe and Asia, the USA and Australia, Latin America and the Middle East. Nouvel is called a modern genius, since he equally succeeds in administrative buildings and residential complexes, museums and concert halls, shopping galleries and public squares, exhibition pavilions and multifunctional skyscrapers.