The acclaimed architect Dominique Perrault was born in 1953 and has won several prizes for his architecture including the Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture in 1997. His work is often characterized by an unadorned austerity and transparency combined with the monumental. The designer of the National Library of France, one of the most discussed structures of the decade, he is also deeply involved in small projects. Here we get a glimpse of his unknown side and see his smaller scale work, including his own home and learn about his ideas of transparency in architecture.