Qu'est-ce qu'un objet singulier ? Une chose étrange, une météorite, un absolu ramassé en un seul point, qui n'est échangeable avec rien d'autre. Ce peut être une idée, un bâtiment, une couleur, un sentiment, un être humain. C'est toujours sa singularité qui le met en péril. Face à la médiatisation et à la mondialisation de la culture, face au nivellement des valeurs et à la généralisation d'une pensée faite uniquement d'opinions, où trouver encore des objets singuliers ? Comment les définir, les créer, les protéger, les reconnaître ? En tissant autour de ce thème leur dialogue, Jean Nouvel et Jean Baudrillard abordent d'autres problèmes fondamentaux qui concernent les années à venir. Ils imaginent comment sera la ville de demain, se demandent pourquoi l'idéal de la transparence a pénétré peu à peu toutes les sphères, depuis la politique jusqu'à l'architecture. Ils traitent, enfin, de la difficulté d'être libre.Un essai sur la singularité donc, qui anime leur oeuvre et leur recherche à tous deux . Et qui détermine une certaine éthique aussi. Un texte passionnant et passionné aux prises avec les grandes mutations qui s'annoncent.

Les Objets singuliers: Architecture et philosophie (Petite Bibliothèque des Idées) (French Edition)

Literature & Fiction

BAUDRILLARD, Jean

Nouvel, Jean

Essays & Correspondence

CALMANN-LEVY

A meditation on what life has been like for millions of us in 2020: a world broken into fragments that we're still trying to piece together." -The Guardian 
American artist Sarah Sze (born 1969) exhibited her first solo show at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain at the turn of the millennium; two decades later, she returns to the exhibition spaces of Jean Nouvel's iconic building in the midst of a similarly contentious global environment with two new sculptures specially created for the occasion. 
These pieces explore how the contemporary proliferation of images--via print and pixel, from deep space to the deep web--fundamentally changes our relationship to time, memory and the physical presence of objects. This catalog, boasting 48 different covers, was designed in close collaboration with the artist and details the execution of Sze's installation. An essay by philosopher Bruno Latour, a conversation between Sze and Jean Nouvel, and an essay by exhibition curator Leanne Sacramone provide further insight into the process behind this work and Sze's artistic philosophy.

Sarah Sze: Night into Day / De Nuit En Jour

Arts & Photography

LATOUR, Bruno

Sacramone, Leanne

Individual Artists

Fondation Cartier Pour Lart

France's premier architect designs his own monograph The work of France's internationally celebrated contemporary architect—and recipient of the 2008 Pritzker Prize—in a book designed by the master himself.Jean Nouvel, winner of the 2008 Pritzker Prize, is widely regarded as France’s most original and important contemporary architect. From 1967 to 1970, he assisted influential architects Claude Parent and Paul Virilio, before creating his own practice in Paris. His first widely acclaimed project was the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris (1981–87). Since then he has completed the Lyon Opera House, the Euralille Shopping Center, Lille, and the Fondation Cartier, Paris. His major completed projects since 2000 include the Culture and Convention Center in Lucerne, Switzerland, the spectacular Agbar Tower in Barcelona, the extension of the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, the Quai Branly Museum in Paris, and the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Nouvel won the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) Gold Medal in 2001 and the Pritzker Prize in 2008.. Jean Nouvel worked for five years with author Philip Jodidio on this prodigiously illustrated TASCHEN monograph, a book commensurate with the architect’s talent. Two 400-page hardcover volumes give the most complete overview to date of Jean Nouvel’s career, including works in progress such as the new Louvre in Abu Dhabi, the Philharmonie de Paris, and the MoMA extension in New York. The book’s graphic design and images were conceived and selected by the architect; in addition, the transparent printed dust jackets mimic the architect’s own tendency to play with contrasts and overlaid patterns. This publication is Nouvel by Nouvel, inside and out.

Jean Nouvel by Jean Nouvel: Complete Works 1970-2008

Architecture

Taschen America, LLC

Global Architecture Document Extra: Jean Nouvel

Internos

Masters: Arata Isozaki, Jean Nouvel, Legorreta Arquitectos, Steven Holl (2) (Masters , No 2)

Holl, Steven

Isozaki, Arata

Arquitectos, Legorreta

St Martins Pr

Almost four years since its initial appearance, Hans Ibelings' essay on the new tendency towards abstract, neutral architecture has lost none of its relevance. His identification and examination of the last word in modern architecture of the post-war International Style stands strong in projects by OMA, Jean Nouvel, Dominique Perrault, Herzog & de Meuron, and Toyo Ito, and is well understood in relation to one of the dominant forces of the present time: globalization. This enlarged edition of Supermodernism includes a new final chapter in which Ibelings charts the latest examples of supermodernism, as well as a revised introduction and conclusion in which he responds to the numerous reactions his provocative stance has triggered.

Supermodernism

NAi Publishers

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