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

Architecture is my work, and Ive spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

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

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

I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.

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.

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.