Dominique perrault biography

"Dominique Perrault has made his own path in contemporary architecture, gaining in notoriety over the years both in and outside of his native France.

Dominique Perrault, the French architect and urban planner

Born in 1953 in Clermont-Ferrand, he studied in Paris and received his diploma as an architect from the École des Beaux-Arts in 1978. He received a further degree in Urbanism at the École nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in 1979, as well as a Master’s in History at the EHESS (École des hautes études en sciences sociales) in 1980.

He created his own firm in 1981 in Paris. Though he completed works before that date, Perrault’s career took a sudden upswing when an international jury selected him to design the French National Library in Paris in 1989. The last of President François Mitterrand’s Grands Travaux, a series of cultural projects that included the Louvre Pyramid by I.M.

Pei, the Library is made up of four 79-meter high towers, imagined like open books around a sunken central courtyard. This proj Dominique Perrault Architecture - homepage WEM