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1944 Born May 9 in Casablanca, Morocco, where his father was an officer in the French Army |
1940s-50s Lives and travels around the world, following the trail of his father’s military career |
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1962-69 Attends the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, completing a degree in architecture |
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1966 Lives in New York’s Greenwich Village while spending a year at Columbia University |
1970 Opens design studio in Paris |
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1971 Secures his first major architectural project - the Water Tower for Marne-la-Vallée, based on the Tower of Babel |
| 1979 Draws attention from the international design community for the Rue des Hautes-Formes housing project in the southeast section of Paris |
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1983 Wins competition to design the Dance School of the Paris Opera in Nanterre |
1984 Christian de Portzamparc, the first of several books about the architect and his work, is published by Electa Moniteur |
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1984 Becomes widely known after winning the competition to design the Cité de la Musique in Paris |
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1989 Receives the “Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” award from the French Ministry of Culture |
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1994 France’s then-Minister of Culture, Jacques Toubon, congratulates Portzamparc on his Pritzker Prize win |
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1991-95 Designs the famous “ski boot” office building for the Credit Lyonnais in Lille |
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1996 Portzamparc, a 168-page book about the life and work of this internationally acclaimed architect, is published by Birkhauser |
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2003 Terrail publishes Christian de Portzamparc by Gilles de Bure |
2004 Wins the Grand Prix de l’urbanisme, a major annual award for urban planning in France |
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2006 The iconic Philharmonic Hall in Luxembourg is featured on the front page of that country’s new passport |
