JEAN NOUVEL

摘要

Jean Nouvel is looking grumpy. He is also looking very French. Indeed, he is also resembling, as a nameless colleague warned me he would, a butcher. Perhaps 'boucher' would be a little more appropriate. Whether he is indeed actually in a Gallic depression or just naturally has the disposition of a charcuterie stallholder going bust isn't clear, but he doesn't look like he's keen to give an interview. One of the reasons he could be a little down is that he's 30 short minutes away from giving a lecture for the Architecture Foundation at the Union Chapel in Islington, London, and he's worried that the unusual light is rendering the images on the projectors almost imperceptible.