Rudy Ricciotti

Rudy Ricciotti (born August 22, 1952 in Algiers , Algeria ) is a French architect and civil engineer living in Bandol , Département Var , who was awarded the Grand prix national de l'architecture in 2006.

Career

Ricciotti has Italian ancestry and came to France when he was three. He grew up in Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône in the Camargue and studied civil engineering (degree in 1975) at the École d'ingénieurs de Genève and architecture at the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Marseille with a degree in 1980.

He has a small publishing house (Al Dante) for architecture and photography and collects rare books himself.

He is a member of the Legion of Honor , received the Ordre national du Mérite and Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2013) and member of the Académie des technologies. In 2018 he received the Freyssinet Medal .

buildings

Mucem in Marseille

Jean Bouin Stadium in Paris

• Reconstruction of the Montmajour Abbey
• Passerelle for Peace in Seoul
• Nikolaisaal in Potsdam , 2000
• Pavilion Noir in Aix-en-Provence , event hall, opened in 2006
• Center chorégraphique national in Aix-en-Provence
• Great hall of the Faculty of Science in Luminy, Marseille
• Villa Navarra in Le Muy , an art gallery
• ITER headquarters in Cadarache 2012
• International School of Manosque
• Musée des Civilizations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée (Mucem) in Marseille. It was built on the old port of Marseille in 2013 when Marseille was European Capital of Culture.
• Stade Jean-Bouin (Paris) (renovation), 2013
• Jean Cocteau Museum in Menton
• Les Arts Gstaad in Gstaad (concert hall for the festival founded by Yehudi Menuhin )
• Museum of Contemporary Art in Liège
• Man and the Sea Museum, Monaco
• Art of Islam department in the Louvre with Mario Bellini
• Pont de la République in Montpellier , 2014
• Mémorial du Camp de Rivesaltes (a former deportation camp in the Pyrenees during the Vichy regime) 2015
• Arkéa Arena in Bordeaux 2018

Web links

• Own web presence

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Charming provocateur. The architect of the Nikolaisaal, Rudy Ricciotti
2. ↑ The "Three Lives" of the Nikolaisaal Potsdam. A historical summary