For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.

For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.

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

The architect's role is to fight for a better world, where he can produce an architecture that serves everyone and not just a group of privileged people.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of the fact that what is important is life, friends and attempting to make this unjust world a better place in which to live.

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