The architect's role is to fight for a better world, where he can produce an architecture that serves everyone and not just a group of privileged people.

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

Surprise is key in all art.

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

I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now.

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

I deliberately disregarded the right angle and rationalist architecture designed with ruler and square to boldly enter the world of curves and straight lines offered by reinforced concrete... This deliberate protest arose from the environment in which I lived, with its white beaches, its huge mountains, its old baroque churches, and the beautiful suntanned women.