The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.

Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful.

Architecture is invention.

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.

Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of the fact that what is important is life, friends and attempting to make this unjust world a better place in which to live.

What attracts me are free and sensual curves. The curves we find in mountains, in the waves of the sea, in the body of the woman we love.

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