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.

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

Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful.

There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.

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

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

It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. What attracts me is the free and sensual curve - the curve that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuous course of its rivers, in the body of the beloved woman.