«The nice side of the crisis is that it forces us to think»

The Georges Pompidou Center in Paris had until recent days a surprising exclusive: there were only exhibitions of architects who were dead or who had won the Pritzker Prize. Last year, Dominique Perrault (Clermont-Ferrand, 1953) became the first exception to this unwritten rule. One exception that has allowed demonstrating that there is life beyond the Library of France, the tender he won with just 36 years that overshadowed, with its prominence, the intense work done later.