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.

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

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

Architecture does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can make life better.

A church is something very beautiful. It is nice when people feel happy in it. But I am not a religious man. Look at us, and then at the infinity of space. We are rather small insignificant creatures, wouldn’t you say?

It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. What attracts me is the free and sensual curve - the curve that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuous course of its rivers, in the body of the beloved woman.

It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.