Surprise is key in all art.

Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.

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

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

I have always accepted and respected all other schools of architecture, from the chill and elemental structures of Mies van der Rohe to the imagination and delirium of Gaudi. I must design what pleases me in a way that is naturally linked to my roots and the country of my origin.

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

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