I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.

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.

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.

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

What attracts me are free and sensual curves. The curves we find in mountains, in the waves of the sea, in the body of the woman we love.

I was attracted by the curve — the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so often recalled in venerable old baroque churches.