At just fifty years old, Christian de Portzamparc is the sixth European architect and the first Frenchman to receive the Pritzker Prize. In Portzamparc's case, the prize rewards one of the most poetic figures on the architectural scene, a creator of concepts in constant motion, sometimes hesitant or indecisive, quite disconcerting in his originality, solitary and, truth be told, strangely removed from contemporary sensibilities...[+]