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

My ambition has always been to reduce a building's support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious and important the architecture is. That has been my life's work.

The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go.

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

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

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

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.