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.

Art should be created for life, not for the museum.

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.

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interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical references.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.