This volume is published on the occasion of the opening of the National Museum of Qatar in the state''s capital, Doha. It explores and celebrates architect Jean Nouvel''s innovative design which, inspired by the desert rose with its interlocking disks, responds to the country''s desert location by the sea. The museum, built around Sheikh Abdullah bin Jassim Al-Thani''s original 19th-century palace, honours Qatar''s heritage while looking to its future as a thriving cultural hub.

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Philip Jodidio studied art history and economics at Harvard, and edited Connaissance des Arts for over twenty years. He is the author of numerous books, including monographs on Tadao Ando, Santiago Calatrava, Norman Foster, Richard Meier, Jean Nouvel and Zaha Hadid as well as The New Pavilions and Casa Moderna: Latin American Living.