Prodigal son of architecture during the 1980s, Jean Nouvel (Fumel, 1945) knew to make the leap to international fame to join the list of star architects. It was a leap linked to the creation of Ateliers Jean Nouvel, a firm of 150 employees working from offices in Paris, Barcelona, Geneva, and Rome, thanks to which the French architect’s language, so often mannerist and always sophisticated, has found a place everywhere in the geographies of globalization, as demonstrated by the works featured in the following pages: the National Museum of Qatar in Doha, the European Patent Office in The Hague, and the Alda Fendi Foundation in Rome.