Jean Nouvel

“Each new situation requires a new architecture.”

“I am not a fan of the 'signature' style. I believe that every building should be a unique response to its context.”

“A good building is one that creates a dialogue with its surroundings.”

“Light is a material. It is a fundamental material of architecture.”

“Architecture is the art of settlement, of inhabiting a place.”

“My buildings are more intelligent than me.”

“An architect is a filmmaker. He is not a decorator.”

“The future of architecture is not so much about the new, but about the re-invention of what already exists.”

“Every place has its own poetry. The role of the architect is to find it and to express it.”

“I am an architect of my time. I try to be in the present.”

“Architecture is always a temporary modification of a territory.”

“To build is to modify a territory, to inscribe a mark on the earth.”

“I am always on the side of the pleasure of living.”

“A building is a world. It is a universe.”

“I work on the specificity of each situation. There is no formula.”

“Architecture is a game of constraints.”

“I like to create buildings that are witnesses of their time.”

“The city is a sum of desires.”

“Architecture has to be a little bit mysterious. It has to be a little bit ambiguous.”

“The museum of the future will be a museum of the senses.”