Architect and Founder of Dominique Perrault Architecture
“Dominique Perrault (born 9 April 1953 in Clermont-Ferrand) is a French architect and urban planner. He became world-renowned for the design of the French National Library, distinguished with the Silver medal for town planning in 1992 and the Mies van der Rohe Prize in 1996. In 2010, he was awarded the gold medal by the French Academy of Architecture for all his work. He was named the 2015 Praemium Imperiale Laureate for Architecture.
He received his Diploma in Architecture at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1978. He also holds a postgraduate diplomas in Town Planning from the Ecole supérieure des Ponts et Chaussée and History from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. He currently heads Dominique Perrault Architecture (DPA) in Paris.”
