My buildings are more famous than me.

- Jean Nouvel

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

- Jean Nouvel

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interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical references.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

- Jean Nouvel

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

- Jean Nouvel

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…

- Jean Nouvel

The task of the architect is to encompass everything about the site, starting from the concrete conditions and the sensory impressions created by tho…

- 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…

- Jean Nouvel

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

- Jean Nouvel

Space, space: architects always talk about space! But creating a space is not automatically doing architecture. With the same space, you can make a m…

- Jean Nouvel