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

Turning 102 is crap, and there is nothing to commemorate.

Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise.

Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.

It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.

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

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