Christian de Portzamparc

Christian de Portzamparc (born May 5, 1944 in Casablanca , French Morocco ) is a French architect and city ​​planner .

Life

De Portzamparc studied from 1962 to 1969 at the State University of Fine Arts in Paris , with Eugène Beaudouin and Georges Candilis , among others . In 1980 he founded the Christian de Portzamparc studio . One of his first projects was the Hautes-Formes residential complex in central Paris (1979). Other well-known works are the Paris Opéra Ballet School in Nanterre (1987), the Cité de la musique (Philharmonie 2 since 1995), the Philharmonie Luxembourg (2005), the Cidade das Artes in Rio de Janeiro (2013) and the LVMH Tower (1999 ), Hearst Tower (2000), and One57 (2014), all in New York City. In Germany he became known through the French Embassy in Berlin , which was completed in 2002 .

Since 2006 he has held the chair for artistic creation at the Collège de France .

In 1994 he was the first French to win the prestigious Pritzker Prize, which has been awarded since 1979 . In 1997 he was awarded honorary membership in the Association of German Architects (BDA) and in 2018 the Praemium Imperiale .

Major works

French embassy in Berlin

LVMH tower in New York

• 1987: École de Danse de l'Opéra de Paris, Nanterre
• 1995: Cité de la musique , Paris , 19th arrdt. , With the Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent award
• 1995: Tour de Lille in the Ensemble Euralille, Lille
• 1999: Extension of the Palais des congrès de Paris , 17th Arrdt.
• 1999: LVMH tower, New York
• 2000: Court of Justice, Grasse
• 2000: Offices and television studios, Boulogne-Billancourt
• 1996–2003: Philharmonie Luxembourg , Luxembourg
• 2000: Grande Bibliothèque du Québec, Montréal
• 2002: French Embassy in Berlin at Pariser Platz , Berlin-Mitte
• 2005–2008: Tour Granite in the La Défense office district near Paris
• 2006: Les Champs-Libres, library, exhibition rooms and planetarium, Rennes
• 2009: Hergé Museum , Louvain-la-Neuve
• 2012: One57 , New York
• 2013: Cidade das Artes , Rio de Janeiro
• 2017: Paris La Défense Arena , Nanterre

honors and awards

• Ordre des Arts et des Lettres ( Commandeur ) (1989)
• Grand Prize for Architecture of the City of Paris (1990)
• Pritzker Prize (1994)
• Legion of Honor (Knight) (1996)
• Ordre national du Mérite (officer) (1996)
• Praemium Imperiale (2018)

Web links

Commons : Christian de Portzamparc  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Christian de Portzamparc in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Christian de Portzamparc in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Official website of Christian de Portzamparc
• "Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate Christian de Portzamparc"