Dominique Perrault

Praemium imperial award winner (Japan), the French architect and urban planner Dominique Perrault is honorary professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. He is also the founder of DPAx, a multidisciplinary research platform exploring architecture from a wider perspective. In October 2018 he launched, in partnership with EPFL and edX educational platform the first MOOC (massive open online course) dedicated to the architecture of the «Groundscape». Along with the Bibliothèque nationale de France, his main projects to date include the Olympic Velodrome and Swimming Pool in Berlin, the extension of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg, the Olympic Tennis Stadium in Madrid, the Fukoku Tower in Osaka and the DC1 Tower in Vienna. In recent years, Dominique Perrault inaugurated the new Paris Longchamp racecourse and led various heritage rehabilitation projects, including the new public entry pavilion for the Château de Versailles and the repurposing of La Poste du Louvre in Paris. Current studies and urban research projects include the olympic and paralympic Village for the olympic games of Paris 2024.