{{Short description|French architect (1938–2018)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}} {{ infobox person | name = Paul Andreu | image = Paul Andreu - ph. GianAngelo Pistoia - A.P. - 2.jpg | birth_date = {{birth date|1938|07|10|df=yes}} | birth_place = Bordeaux, France | death_date = {{death date and age|2018|10|11|1938|07|10|df=yes}} | death_place = Paris, France | education = Lycée Louis-le-Grand | alma_mater = École Polytechnique<br>École des ponts ParisTech | occupation = Architect<br>Civil engineer }}

[[File:National Centre for the Performing Arts.jpg|thumb|National Grand Theatre, Beijing]]

'''Paul Andreu''' (10 July 1938 – 11 October 2018) was a French architect, known for his designs of multiple airports such as Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, and multiple prestigious projects in China, including the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13673-obituary-paul-andreu-19382018|title=Obituary: Paul Andreu, 1938–2018|date=12 October 2018|work=Architectural Record|access-date=2018-10-13|language=en}}</ref>

== Early life and education == Andreu was born at Caudéran (Gironde), in southwest France. He graduated in 1958 from the École Polytechnique and continued his studies at the École des ponts ParisTech, graduating in 1961. He next studied under architect Paul Lamarche in the École des Beaux-Arts, graduating in 1968.<ref name=structurae>{{Cite web|title = Paul Andreu – French architect and engineer mostly noted for his numerous airport designs.|url = http://structurae.net/persons/paul-andreu|website = Structurae.net /|accessdate = 13 September 2015}}</ref><ref name=beauxartsbio>{{Cite web|title = Biographie|url = http://www.academie-des-beaux-arts.fr/membres/actuel/architecture/andreu/fiche.htm|website = Academie des beaux arts|accessdate = 13 September 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181013065234/http://www.academie-des-beaux-arts.fr/membres/actuel/architecture/Andreu/fiche.htm|archive-date = 2018-10-13|url-status = dead}}</ref>

== Projects == Andreu was responsible for the design of numerous airports, including Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Manila), Soekarno-Hatta International Airport (Jakarta), Shanghai Pudong International Airport in China, Abu Dhabi International Airport, Dubai International Airport, Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport, Cairo International Airport, Brunei International Airport, and the Charles de Gaulle Airport, and Orly Airport in Paris. thumb|Collapsed Terminal 2E, June 2004 He was in charge of planning and constructing Charles de Gaulle Airport (Roissy) in Paris from 1967 on. On 23 May 2004 a portion of Terminal 2E collapsed, killing four people. Terminal 2E, inaugurated in 2003, is the seventh terminal at Roissy by Andreu, and has been described as one of Andreu's boldest designs.<ref>{{Cite news|title = Profile: Paul Andreu|url = https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3742081.stm|newspaper = BBC|date = 24 May 2004|access-date = 20 September 2015}}</ref> The collapse was attributed by the ad hoc administrative enquiry commission to a variety of technical causes and the lack of margins of safety in the design. Andreu blamed the collapse on poor execution by the building companies.{{citation needed|date=October 2014}}

Andreu's other projects included the Grande Arche at La Défense in Paris (as associate of Johann Otto von Spreckelsen), Shandong Grand Theater in Jinan and the National Grand Theater of China enclosed in a titanium and glass shell near Beijing's Tiananmen Square which was inaugurated on 22 December 2007.<ref>[http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/23/asia/theater.php China's national theater makes debut], International Herald Tribune, 23 December 2007.</ref>

In 2008, Andreu was hired to design a cultural centre and ticket office in Montreal's new Quartier des Spectacles entertainment district.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Montreal entertainment district building to go up without federal help|url = http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-entertainment-district-building-to-go-up-without-federal-help-1.763063|accessdate = 20 September 2015|website = CBC.ca|date = 24 October 2008}}</ref>

== Other activities==

In 2011, Andreu became dean emeritus and chair professor of the Architecture Department at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, where he taught three months per year.<ref>[http://www.hicenter.cn/columns_detail.asp?id=435260 "'Big Egg' architect teaches in Hangzhou," Shanghai Daily] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150623211119/http://www.hicenter.cn/columns_detail.asp?id=435260 |date=23 June 2015 }}</ref> In 2015 and 2016, he was a member of the Prix Versailles judges panel.<ref>[http://www.prix-versailles.com/world-jury-2016 Prix Versailles website]</ref>

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== External links == *[http://www.paul-andreu.com/ www.paul-andreu.com] Andreu's homepage {{in lang|fr}} *BBC News: [https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3742081.stm Profile: Paul Andreu] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20050406144314/http://www.equipement.gouv.fr/article.php3?id_article=710 Official report of the enquiry commission] {{in lang|fr}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080728053324/http://www.specifier.com.au/pastissues/32842/Left-of-the-Forbidden-City.html Pictures and profile at ''Specifier Magazine''] * {{Structurae person|id=d000214|name=Paul Andreu}} * Gerhard Bissell, [https://www.degruyter.com/view/AKL/_40481323?rskey=OKkWo1&result=1&dbq_0=andreu%2C+paul&dbf_0=akl-name&dbt_0=name&o_0=AND ''Andreu, Paul''], in: ''Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon (Artists of the World)'', Suppl. I, Saur, Munich 2005, from p.&nbsp;344 (in German).

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