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

Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.

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.

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

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

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.

My work is not about "form follows function," but "form follows beauty" or, even better, "form follows feminine."