Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.

Architecture is invention.

My architecture is easy to understand. And enjoy. I hope it also is hard to forget.

I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.

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.

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.