Jean Nouvel

02/09/2026

20 years

Guthrie Theater
Minneapolis, USA
2001-2006

“The Guthrie is coming to settle in the historic golden rectangle near the falls, next to the old mills, in the industrial quarter that invented Minneapolis. Thus two histories, two legends, meet.” – Jean Nouvel

• Program: construction of a theatre composed of 3 halls (1100, 700 and 250 seats), boxes, workshops, restaurants
• Habitable area: 18,414 m²
• Surface area: 25,500 m²

📸 © Roland Halbe © Philippe Ruault

26/08/2026

LAST DAYS


“Jean Nouvel: Without the , Disappears”
5th anniversary • • Until August 31, 2026

“My inspiration stems from a love for a particular place, from the desire to give concrete expression to that love and put it into practice, and from the pursuit of creating something within a specific time and space… For an architect, there is no greater satisfaction than to create a building for a city or an institution that can foster vitality and stand the test of time." – Jean Nouvel

📸 © Alessandro Wang - Museum of Art Pudong /

05/08/2026

“The largest exhibition ever dedicated to Jean Nouvel on view in a museum he designed” – via Domus: https://shorturl.at/gmKdu

At the Pudong Museum of Art, four key buildings and more than one hundred objects illustrate the approach, vision, and methodology of Ateliers Jean Nouvel.

“MAP’s exhibition spaces host a show dedicated to the French architect – 2022 Domus guest editor, 2008 Pritzker Prize laureate, and author of some of the most recognisable buildings in contemporary architecture.”

“Ateliers Jean Nouvel, founded in 1994, played a decisive role in establishing France as a laboratory for avant-garde architectural experimentation. Throughout his career, the designer has worked across different scales and languages, engaging each time with the specific conditions of the site and brief.”


"Jean Nouvel: Without the , Disappears”
5th anniversary • • Until August 31, 2026
📸 © Alessandro Wang - Museum of Art Pudong /

22/07/2026

Dentsu Tower
Tokyo, Japan
1998-2002

Vanishing architecture

The building features a boomerang-shaped office floor plan and a ceramic-printed glass façade with vertical and horizontal gradations.
Its design responds to the site's historical context – the former location of Tokyo's first railway station and the nearby Hamarikyu Gardens, a former shōgun's estate – by integrating a contemporary architectural expression with the surrounding urban and historical landscape.

Prize: 2003 – Good Design Award, Architecture And Environment Design, Gold Prize, Japon

📸 © Charlotte Kruk

17/07/2026

backstage.

Dominique Alba, Ateliers Jean Nouvel CEO and Didier Brault, Partner architect, introduce Jean Nouvel's exclusive exhibition celebrating the 5th anniversary of the – “Jean Nouvel: Without the Artist, Architecture Disappears.”

Nouvel's architectural philosophy is defined by a powerful sense of place and context, which gives each of his works an irreplaceable originality, including the MAP in , which opened in July 2021.

📸 Courtesy Museum of Art Pudong /

14/07/2026

🇫🇷 Joyeux .
📍 La Marseillaise, Marseille, France
📸 © Jérôme Cabanel

08/07/2026

Opening ceremony.
Throwback on the inauguration of Jean Nouvel's major personal exhibition at MAP .

Immerse yourself in the world of architecture and Nouvel's work, through the first exhibition held inside a building he designed himself.

“The power of architecture lies in its uniqueness, in its deep roots in a specific history and sense of place, and in its belonging to a particular culture.” –


"Jean Nouvel: Without the Artist, Architecture Disappears”
5th anniversary • • Until August 31, 2026

📸 Courtesy Museum of Art Pudong /

04/07/2026

What would our perception of the world be like if we lost all sensory experience?
What would reason be without poetic argument?

Jean Nouvel poses these questions in his exhibition introduction, to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the Museum of Art Pudong, Shanghai, China.

Architecture is not only designed by people – it also emerges from the depths of land, history, climate, and community. The large-scale moving images exhibited here allow visitors to understand and feel architecture.

• Exhibition | Until August 31, 2026
• “Jean Nouvel: Without the Artist, Architecture Disappears”

📸 © Alessandro Wang - Museum of Art Pudong

30/06/2026

30/06/2026

Exhibition
“Jean Nouvel: Without the Artist, Architecture Disappears”
5th anniversary | Museum of Art Pudong

Through a diverse range of formats – moving images, scale models, archival materials, and faithful reconstructions of studio environments – this is the largest solo exhibition of Nouvel’s work ever mounted, regarding the number of projects presented.

It breaks the mold of the conventional architecture exhibition and offers a panoramic portrait of more than 50 years of the French architect’s achievements. Beyond his signature architectural works, it features more than 100 industrial design projects.

Thus, visitors not only encounter the architectural blueprints that have transformed city skylines, but also the furniture and objects especially designed for the projects, exploring a lesser-known side of Nouvel's practice.

📸 © Charlotte Kruk