Life is very fleeting. It’s important to be gentle and optimistic. We look behind and think what we’ve done in this life has been good. It was simple; it was modest. Everyone creates their own story and moves on. That’s it. I don’t feel particularly important. What we create is not important. We’re very insignificant.

My architecture is easy to understand. And enjoy. I hope it also is hard to forget.

Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.

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

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

We need to feel that life is important; we need that fantasy so we can live a little better.

Camus says in 'The Stranger' that reason is the enemy of imagination. Sometimes you have to put reason aside and make something beautiful.