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...another. The museum is surrounded by a forested parkland and pools of water, further blurring the lines between the West and elsewhere; between the observed and the observing; between Paris and the world. The new museum gives Paris its third major Nouvel project. Farther up the river is the Institut du Monde Arabe, and farther south is the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art. Spain, too, has been a Nouvel wonderland of late, with the opening last year of both his shimmering Agbar Tower in Barcelona and his new extension for the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. By comparison, Nouvel...
...better to put paradox into concrete form than architect Nouvel? The light-sensitive fa?ade of his best-known building, the Institut du Monde Arabe, both veils and reveals the culture within, and for the MQB, it was his idea to hand over the administrative wing to the left of the museum's main entrance as a blank canvas for the Australian artists. While the building functions as a bookshop, curatorial offices and library, it was also Nouvel's idea for it to be viewed as a 3D artwork from the street. Every available window, wall, ceiling and column was seen...
Before coming to Harvard, he taught at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study, the University of Michigan, and the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques in France...
Currently in Florence, Fehrenbach will arrive with teaching experience gained at famous European institutions such as Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence, Humboldt University in Berlin, and Schiller University in Jena, Germany. He has also penned several books in his field...
...Taken together, the various releases demonstrate the deep shadow Mitterrand still casts over France nine years after his death. "He remains fascinating to people of the left and the right," says ex-Foreign Minister Hubert Védrine, a key Mitterrand adviser and current president of the Institut François-Mitterrand, an institution devoted to preserving Mitterrand's memory. "Sixty years of political life during very troubled political times, his move from the right to the left, his intellectual authority, psychological strength, and stupendous culture - it all adds up to a romantic figure...