Since designing the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (the French National Library) in 1989, Dominique Perrault has become one of the most respected French architects of his generation. His Olympic cycle-racing track and swimming pool in Berlin (1999), his design for the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne (currently being built), the Olympic tennis centre in Madrid (2009), and the Court of Justice of the European Union (Luxembourg, 2008) illustrate the extent to which his work draws its force from simple geometric forms and from attention to proportions and surfaces. Alongside its architectural work, Dominique Perrault’s practice has taken part in a number of town-planning studies, including those for “Le Grand Paris”, the redevelopment of both banks of the Garonne in Bordeaux, the Ile-de-Nantes, and a business district in Pudong, Shanghai. He has won many awards for his work, including the Equerre d’Argent du Moniteur (1992), the Grand Prix National d’Architecture (1993), and the Mies van der Rohe Award (1997). It is an oeuvre of great consistency, which you can learn more about from his lecture at the Centre for Fine Arts on 7 May 2013.