Dominique Perrault

Dominique Perrault is the French architect I most associate with monumental restraint, and the National Library of France is exactly why. Designing four glass towers shaped like open books to anchor a national library is the kind of bold conceptual move that either lands or doesn't, and his clearly landed: the Mies van der Rohe Prize in 1996, the Praemium Imperiale in 2015, and France's gold medal for his body of work. Projects like Madrid's Caja Magica and the Berlin Velodrom show me a planner thinking at city scale, not just building scale. Born in Clermont-Ferrand in 1953, he's earned his place among the architects who shape how a country sees itself.

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Name (English)

Dominique Perrault

Name (Japanese)

ドミニク・ペロー

Reading

どみにく・ぺろー

Born

April 9, 1953 (age 73)

Origin

Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, France

Occupation

architect

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Snake

Awards & achievements

• 1996 Knight of the Legion of Honour
• 1990 Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent
• 1996 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture
• 2015 Praemium Imperiale
• 2016 Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎
• 2012 Officer of the Legion of Honour
• 1993 Grand prix national de l'architecture

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttps://www.perraultarchitecture.com/en/homepage/
• Xhttps://x.com/dpa_official
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique%20Perrault
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%9F%E3%83%8B%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9A%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q504358

Tags

• Puy-de-Dôme
• architect

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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