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Top 15 Jean Nouvel Quotes (2025 Update)

Jean Nouvel Quote: “Each new situation requires a new architecture.”

1. “Each new situation requires a new architecture.”

— Jean Nouvel

Jean Nouvel Quote: “Space, space: architects always talk about space! But creating a space is not automatically doing architecture. With the same space, you can make a masterpiece or cause a disaster.”

2. “Space, space: architects always talk about space! But creating a space is not automatically doing architecture. With the same space, you can make a masterpiece or cause a disaster.”

— Jean Nouvel

Jean Nouvel Quote: “I think architecture has to be a gift.”

3. “I think architecture has to be a gift.”

— Jean Nouvel

Jean Nouvel Quote: “Architecture exists, like cinema, in the dimension of time and movement.”

4. “Architecture exists, like cinema, in the dimension of time and movement.”

— Jean Nouvel

Jean Nouvel Quote: “My buildings are more famous than me.”

5. “My buildings are more famous than me.”

— Jean Nouvel

Jean Nouvel Quote: “I like to play with architecture! It’s my favorite game.”

6. “I like to play with architecture! It’s my favorite game.”

— Jean Nouvel

Jean Nouvel Quote: “I don’t like the idea that one hotel could be better than another. In any city, I try to find a hotel that has the identity of that place – Claridge’s in London, the Danieli or Cipriani in Venice. In New York, I stay at the Mercer Hotel; it is so much in the character of SoHo.”

7. “I don’t like the idea that one hotel could be better than another. In any city, I try to find a hotel that has the identity of that place – Claridge’s in London, the Danieli or Cipriani in Venice. In New York, I stay at the Mercer Hotel; it is so much in the character of SoHo.”

— Jean Nouvel

Jean Nouvel Quote: “The task of the architect is to encompass everything about the site, starting from the concrete conditions and the sensory impressions created by those, to memories of the place, through empathy to vision.”

8. “The task of the architect is to encompass everything about the site, starting from the concrete conditions and the sensory impressions created by those, to memories of the place, through empathy to vision.”

— Jean Nouvel

Jean Nouvel Quote: “Art should be created for life, not for the museum.”

9. “Art should be created for life, not for the museum.”

— Jean Nouvel

Jean Nouvel Quote: “The best engineer a few decades ago was someone who could create the most beautiful beam or structure; today it’s to do a structure you cannot see or understand how it’s done. It disappears and you can talk only about color, symbols, and light. It’s an aesthetic of miracle.”

10. “The best engineer a few decades ago was someone who could create the most beautiful beam or structure; today it’s to do a structure you cannot see or understand how it’s done. It disappears and you can talk only about color, symbols, and light. It’s an aesthetic of miracle.”

— Jean Nouvel

Jean Nouvel Quote: “My interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical references. My work deals with what is happening now – our techniques and materials, what we are capable of doing today.”

11. “My interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical references. My work deals with what is happening now – our techniques and materials, what we are capable of doing today.”

— Jean Nouvel

Jean Nouvel Quote: “I generally hate the luxury modern apartment with too many things out of sight and so clean you cannot touch.”

12. “I generally hate the luxury modern apartment with too many things out of sight and so clean you cannot touch.”

— Jean Nouvel

Jean Nouvel Quote: “It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place – that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.”

13. “It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place – that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.”

— Jean Nouvel

Jean Nouvel Quote: “I like English parks.”

14. “I like English parks.”

— Jean Nouvel

Jean Nouvel Quote: “If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!”

15. “If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!”

— Jean Nouvel

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