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.
