The 2024 Jury
Jean Nouvel
Architect | Pritzker Prize
Joseph Giovannini
Architect | historian | author
Anupama Kundoo
Architect
Loris Gréaud
Artist
Carme Pigem
Architect (RCR) | Pritzker Prize
Julie Cattant
Architect | doctor in Architecture
Assistant to the architect Claude Parent, Jean Nouvel started his first architecture practice in 1970. His contextual approach and ability to infuse a genuine uniqueness into all the projects he undertakes have consistently yielded buildings that transform their environments and indelibly mark the cities in which they are built : the Musée du quai Branly et the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain (Paris), the Louvre Abu Dhabi, the National Museum of Qatar (Doha) or recently the Museum of Art Pudong (Shanghai) and the Rosewood Tower (São Paolo). His works have gained world-wide recognition through numerous rewards, including the prestigious Pritzker Prize awarded to him in 2008.
Read Jean Nouvel's tribute to Claude Parent
(in L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui 411 - Mars 2016)
Nominated for a Pulitzer in criticism three times, Joseph Giovannini has written thousands of articles on architecture, design and urbanism for the New York Times, Art in America, Architect Magazine, New York Review of Books, and Vanity Fair, among others. He has served as the architecture critic for New York Magazine, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He wrote on staff as a reporter for the New York Times, to which he still contributes. His monumental 800-page Architecture Unbound: A Century of the Disruptive Avant-Garde was recently published by Rizzoli NY. He has authored numerous essays in monographs and museum catalogs.
A Yale graduate, Giovannini also has an M.A. in French Language and Literature from Middlebury College, earned through studies at the Sorbonne, and an M. Arch. from Harvard's Graduate School of Design. He has taught studios, mostly in graduate programs, at Columbia University, the Pratt Institute, the University of California, Los Angeles, the University of Southern California, the University of Innsbruck, and at Harvard University, the Carpenter Center. Trained as an architect, Giovannini heads his own design firm, Giovannini Associates.
Anupama Kundoo graduated from the University of Bombay in 1989 and received her PhD from TU Berlin in 2008. Her research-oriented practice began in 1990 in Auroville, generating centered architecture using low environmental impact and cost-effective materials. “Taking Time” exhibition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, in 2021. She teaches architecture and urban management at various international universities, strengthening her expertise on development issues related to rapid urbanization and climate
change. RIBA Charles Jencks Prize 2021 for Contribution to Architectural Theory, Auguste Perret Prize 2021, and Building Sense Now Global Prize 2021 from the German Green Building Council, she is based in Berlin, Pune, and Pondicherry (India). Anupama's research and experimentation towards a new materiality for architecture is the result of questioning the basic assumptions, and the construction habits that humanity has adopted during the long process of 'industrialization. Rather than looking at scarcity, it seeks abundance by investing in human resources and ingenuity, time, skills, attention, and a sense of community.
Loris Gréaud is a French conceptual artist, installationist, filmmaker, and architect. His approach is characterized by putting forward the idea of a project rather than an exhibition. Loris Gréaud considers in fact that only the idea and the project in itself must be authoritative, in particular by defining its modalities of appearance, display, dissemination or even duration or economy. He places productivity and efficiency in the reality of his projects at the center of his practice. It also gives a special place to the systematic erasure of the limits between the spaces of fiction and reality. Loris worked with Claude Parent, who also appears in his movie Sculpt, between 2014 and 2016. Their final collaboration is also Claude Parent's last building: The Workshop, the artist's studio.
Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta have been architects since 1987 and in 1988 they founded RCR ARQUITECTES in their hometown of Olot. They were awarded the prestigious Pritzker Prize 2017, Knight and Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters (France) in 2008 and 2014, are honorary members of the American Institute of Architecture (AIA) since 2010. In 2012 they became honor members of the Royal British Institute of Architects (RIBA), followed by the Gold Medal of the French Academy of Architecture in 2015, Gold Medal of the Generalitat de Catalunya 2018 and Foreign Members of the Academy of Architecture 2019. Since 2020, RCR has been part of the permanent collection of the Center Pompidou. Winners of several competitions, they have received awards such as the 2015 Spanish International Architecture Prize for the Soulages Museum, the 2011 International Prize of the Belgian Building Awards, and ten FAD Prizes.
Julie Cattant is a DPLG architect and doctor of architecture. She is a researcher in the EVS-LAURe laboratory (UMR CNRS 5600) and an associated researcher in the GERPHAU laboratory (EA 7486). Lecturer in Cities and Territories, she teaches at the National Superior Architecture School of Lyon (France). Her doctoral research on the relationships between architecture and the horizon led her to study the work of Claude Parent with whom she conducted numerous interviews between 2011 and 2013.
Claude Parent, Eva Mahdalickova and Julie Cattant published together the book Claude Parent Autrement. Julie Cattant has also written several articles on the work of Claude Parent.