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At the pinnacle of his profession and powers, Christian de Portzamparc is a shining star in the firmament of high design.

Pritzker Prize–winning architect Christian de Portzamparc is renowned for bold yet artful architecture that is at once sensitive to its context while at the same time being novel, adventurous, and frequently exciting. One57, the soaring residential skyscraper in New York, with unparalleled views of Central Park, is perhaps his most famous building in the United States, but his work ranges widely across the globe, from an extraordinary handkerchief puff–shaped boutique for Christian Dior in Seoul to a low-winged arabesque of a building for the wine producer Cheval Blanc to a mysterious temple of the modern for Casarts in Casablanca. This volume, the first major comprehensive book on Portzamparc’s work in more than three decades, is a revelation and a comprehensive survey of the work of one of the world’s most innovative and exciting architects at the height of his powers.

Philip Jodidio has written more than fifty books on contemporary architecture, including monographs on Tadao Ando, Norman Foster, Richard Meier, Jean Nouvel, and Alvaro Siza. He was the editor in chief of Connaissance des Arts, the most widely distributed French art monthly, from 1980 to 2002.

Christian de Portzamparc is an architect and urban planner. In 1994, he was awarded the Pritzker Prize, widely considered “architecture’s Nobel” and the profession’s highest honor.

006 Modern… and Now by Christian de
008 Bringing Architecture to Life: The Work of Christian de Portzamparc by Philip Jodidio

Seven Chapters by Christian de Portzamparc
024 Chapter 1 Perception of Space
070 Chapter 2 Urban Situations: Birth of the Open Block, 1990s
120 Chapter 3 Composites Object: The 1990s
176 Chapter 4 Carved Blocks: The 2000s
234 Chapter 5 Singularities
284 Chapter 6 Verticality
330 Chapter 7 Blocks and Neighborhoods
360 Acknowledgments