Architecture is my work, and Ive spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.

The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.

When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.

Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.

Life is more important than architecture.

In architecture it isn't enough to just have the right building that works well. It can also be beautiful. It can also be different. It can create surprise. And surprise is the main thing in a work of art. [] I like and respect Brasí­lia very much. It is a simple city, a rational one. I always defend the urban design of Brasí­lia