22 Quotes by Jean Nouvel

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.

Architecture exists, like cinema, in the dimension of time and movement

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.

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.

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

Art should be created for life, not for the museum

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

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.

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