Dominique Perrault is a French architect respected for his minimalist sensibility and projects that comfortably meld environment, culture and utility. He is perhaps best known for an expansion of the National Library of France and the newly completed extension to the Pavillon Dufour at the Palace of Versailles.

Reading: I read Patrick Modiano to get lost in time and Paris’s space: “Rue des boutiques obscures,” “Dora Bruder,” “La Place de l’étoile.”........Continue Reading

Top image: Dominique Perrault in his atelier in Paris. Credit Miguel Medina/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

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