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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

When you have a large space to conquer, the curve is the natural solution.