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.

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

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.

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

Life is more important than architecture.

I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.

A church is something very beautiful. It is nice when people feel happy in it. But I am not a religious man. Look at us, and then at the infinity of space. We are rather small insignificant creatures, wouldn’t you say?