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.

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

My work is not about "form follows function," but "form follows beauty" or, even better, "form follows feminine."

Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful.

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.

Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my friends and feeling what is happening in this world.

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.