Dominique Perrault

Dominique Perrault
Born	(1953-04-09) 9 April 1953 (age 71) Clermont-Ferrand, France
Alma mater	DPLG Architect, Paris in 1978
Occupation	Architect
Awards	French Silver medal for town planning (1990), Great French National Prize of Architecture (1993), European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (1997), AFEX prize (2010), Grande médaille d’or de l’Académie d’Architecture (2010), Member of the Academie des Beaux-Arts, Paris (2015), Praemium Imperiale (2015)
Practice	Dominique Perrault Architecture (DPA)
Buildings	French National Library Olympic Velodrome and Olympic swimming pool, Berlin Fourth and fifth extensions of the Palais de la Cour de Justice, Luxembourg Olympic Tennis Stadium, Madrid Ewha Womans University, Seoul Fukoku Tower, Osaka

Dominique Perrault (born 9 April 1953 in Clermont-Ferrand) is a French architect and urban planner. He became world known for the design of the French National Library, distinguished with the Silver medal for town planning in 1992 and the Mies van der Rohe Prize in 1996. In 2010 he was awarded the gold medal by the French Academy of Architecture for all his work. He was named as the 2015 Praemium Imperiale Laureate for Architecture.

He received his Diploma in Architecture at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1978. He also holds a postgraduate diplomas in Town Planning from the Ecole supérieure des Ponts et Chaussée and History from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.^[1]

He currently heads Dominique Perrault Architecture (DPA) in Paris.