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

I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.

We hated Bauhaus. It was a bad time in architecture. They just didn’t have any talent. All they had were rules. Even for knives and forks they created rules. Picasso would never have accepted rules. The house is like a machine? No! The mechanical is ugly. The rule is the worst thing. You just want to break it.

I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.

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.

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

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