Rudy Ricciotti, born in 1952, is one of the most acclaimed architects and artists in the world, and as been awarded with the highest French order of merit - Ordre National du Mérite.
He has his own publisher, where he publishes books about photography, poetry and where he has edited a French translation by John Ashbery.
Ricciotti is an architect and engineer, winner of the 2006 Grand Prize of Architecture and the Gold Medal of the Academy of Architecture in 2013. Born in Algiers, Algeria, Ricciotti moved to France at the age of three. He studied Engineering at the Higher Technical School of Geneva in Switzerland, and, later, Architecture at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture in Marseille, France, until 1980, the year of graduation.
Ricciotti combines the two worlds that have naturally complemented each other over the years – physical construction and artistic creation. With a special interest in the architectural uses of concrete, he is against minimalism and defends the mischaracterization of museums.
Architect of the Vitrolles Stadium (1994), the Black Pavilion at the National Choreographic Center in Aix-en-Provence (2006), the Jean Cocteau Museum in Menton (2011), he also designed the Department of Islamic Arts of the Louvre Museum (2012), and the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations in Marseille (2013).
Outside France, Ricciotti has works carried out in Germany – Philharmonie Nikolaisaal, Potsdam (2000) – in South Korea – Peace Bridge, Seoul (2002) – and in Belgium – CIAC "La Boverie" (International Center of Art and Culture), Liège (2016). He also published books such as Le Beau, le Brut et les Truands, with Paul Chemetov.