Category: Architects
Post Contributors: Alice Thomas, Jon Stevens
Profession: Architect
Born: May 5, 1944, Casablanca, Morocco
Nationality: French
Famous for:
- Pritzker Prize winner
- Bold conceptual architecture style
- Credit Lyonnais Tower, France
- Prism Tower, New York
Links for resources:
Official website (biography, projects, news)
Portrait (from the Pritzker Prize's website)
Sketches of projects, MoMA, New York
Prism Tower, New York, article (context, structure and description), The Ornamental Metal Institute Of New York
Dior's flagship store (background, photos and architectural plans)
Detailed biography, Britannica
Centre Pompidou exhibition's article by Marie Christine Loriers
The architect explaining his work on TV (In French with English subtitles, transcript and context)
https://fresques.ina.fr/europe-des-cultures-en/fiche-media/Europe00329/christian-de-portzamparc.html
Laureate profile and biography, Praemium Imperiale
Short biography and audio recordings (in French)
Short biography including referenced photographs of various projects
Interview (in English) about Suzhou's Cultural Centre
Further research:
- Pritzker Prize
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