Jean Nouvel famous quotes

03-24-2025

Art should be created for life, not for the museum
-- Jean Nouvel

#Art #Museums #Should
Each new situation requires a new architecture.
-- Jean Nouvel

#Architecture #Architect #Situation
Architecture exists, like cinema, in the dimension of time and movement
-- Jean Nouvel

#Cinema #Movement #Dimensions
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

#Design #Important #Different
I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.
-- Jean Nouvel

#Games #Play #Architecture
I think architecture has to be a gift.
-- Jean Nouvel

#Thinking #Architecture
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interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical references.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 nowâ€”our techniques and materials, what we are capable of doing today.
-- Jean Nouvel

#Historical #Today #Technique
My buildings are more famous than me.
-- Jean Nouvel

#Building
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

#New York #Character #Cities
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

#Fire #House
I generally hate the luxury modern apartment with too many things out of sight and so clean you cannot touch.
-- Jean Nouvel

#Hate #Sight #Luxury
I like English parks.
-- Jean Nouvel

#Parks

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