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

I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now.

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

When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.

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.

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

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.