Jean Nouvel's largest architecture exhibition to date opens in Shanghai on June 27

Jean Nouvel: Without The Art, Architecture Disappears will open at the Museum of Art Pudong (MAP) in Shanghai on June 27, 2026. The exhibition marks the first time Pritzker Prize-winning French architect Jean Nouvel has staged a solo show inside a building of his own design. It is also MAP’s first architecture-focused exhibition since the museum opened five years ago.

Presented as part of MAP’s fifth-anniversary programming, the show is billed as the largest solo exhibition of Nouvel’s work to date. It brings together more than 400 architectural projects and 100 design archives from across his five-decade career.

The exhibition is organized into two main sections, Architecture and Design. The architecture section includes well-known projects such as the Arab World Institute in Paris, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Louvre Abu Dhabi, and the National Museum of Qatar in Doha. The design section focuses on more than 100 furniture and industrial design pieces produced since 1987.