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

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.

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

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.

It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.

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.

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