I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.

Turning 102 is crap, and there is nothing to commemorate.

Camus says in 'The Stranger' that reason is the enemy of imagination. Sometimes you have to put reason aside and make something beautiful.

I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now.

The rule is the worst thing. You just want to break it.

We hated Bauhaus. It was a bad time in architecture. They just didn’t have any talent. All they had were rules. Even for knives and forks they created rules. Picasso would never have accepted rules. The house is like a machine? No! The mechanical is ugly. The rule is the worst thing. You just want to break it.

I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.