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

Architecture does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can make life better.

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.

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.

It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.

I have always accepted and respected all other schools of architecture, from the chill and elemental structures of Mies van der Rohe to the imagination and delirium of Gaudi. I must design what pleases me in a way that is naturally linked to my roots and the country of my origin.