Camus says in 'The Stranger' that reason is the enemy of imagination. Sometimes you have to put reason aside and make something beautiful.

We have to have dreams, even if they never come true.

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 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.

The architect's role is to fight for a better world, where he can produce an architecture that serves everyone and not just a group of privileged people.

Surprise is key in all art.

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