Prodigal son of architecture during the 1980s, Jean Nouvel (Fumel, 1945) knew to make the leap to international fame to join the list of 'star architects.' It was a leap linked to the creation of Ateliers Jean Nouvel, a firm of 150 employees working from offices in Paris, Barcelona, Geneva, and Rome, thanks to which the French architect's language, always sophisticated, has found a place everywhere in the geographies of globalization, as demonstrated by the works featured in this issue: the National Museum of Qatar in Doha, the European Patent Office in The Hague, and the Alda Fendi Foundation in Rome.

Prodigal son of architecture during the 1980s, Jean Nouvel (Fumel, 1945) knew to make the leap to international fame to join the list of 'star architects.' It was a leap linked to the creation of Ateliers Jean Nouvel, a firm of 150 employees working from offices in Paris, Barcelona, Geneva, and Rome, thanks to which the French architect's language, always sophisticated, has found a place everywhere in the geographies of globalization, as demonstrated by the works featured in this issue: the National Museum of Qatar in Doha, the European Patent Office in The Hague, and the Alda Fendi Foundation in Rome.