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.

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.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.

Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise.

My architecture is easy to understand. And enjoy. I hope it also is hard to forget.

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