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.

Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.

When you have a large space to conquer, the curve is the natural solution.

When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.

We have to have dreams, even if they never come true.

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

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