Dominique Perrault
Dominique Perrault is a French architect and urban planner. His work is exhibited in the largest museums in the world. A monographic exhibition retracing all of his work is dedicated to him at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in 2008. He was also appointed commissioner of the French pavilion of the architecture section of the Venice Biennale in 2010. In 2018, for the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the construction of the National Library of France, the architect exhibits for the first time around unpublished archives, his emblematic project in the large gallery of the site François Mitterrand de la BnF.
In parallel, he carried out important heritage rehabilitation operations, including those of the prestigious Longchamp racetrack in Paris, the Dufour pavilion at the Château de Versailles and the Poste du Louvre in Paris. In spring 2014, Dominique Perrault inaugurated Vienna’s tallest tower, the icon of the new business district, as well as the Grand Théâtre des Cordeliers in Albi.
In 2015, he received the Praemium Imperiale award in the architecture category.
On February 25, 2015, he was elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-arts, Chair 6 of the Architecture Section previously occupied by Marc Saltet.
In December 2016, Dominique Perrault and Philippe Bélaval, President of the Centre des monuments nationaux, present to the President of the Republic and the Mayor of Paris the study and orientation mission entrusted to them in December 2015 to foreshadow the Ile de la Cité by 2040.
