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

It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. What attracts me is the free and sensual curve - the curve that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuous course of its rivers, in the body of the beloved woman.

There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.

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

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

When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.