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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.