Vienna, Sofitel Stephansdom 36|PROTAGONISTA Projects around the world and awards including the RIBA Gold Medal and the Pritzker have made him one of the most prestigious architects. With a very personal architectural language, Ateliers Jean Nouvel have designed unique buildings, integrated into their surroundings and very different. Although all of them have a common denominator: the transparency and the play between light and shadows. ICandela has had the privilege of asking Jean Nouvel about his relationship with lighting design in one of his works, the Renaissan- ce Barcelona Fira Hotel. Jean Nouvel: “The light exists because there is shadow, is something that evokes a feeling, an emotion’ © Gaston Bergeret