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.

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

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

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 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.

Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.

My work is not about "form follows function," but "form follows beauty" or, even better, "form follows feminine."