We hated Bauhaus. It was a bad time in architecture. They just didn’t have any talent. All they had were rules. Even for knives and forks they created rules. Picasso would never have accepted rules. The house is like a machine? No! The mechanical is ugly. The rule is the worst thing. You just want to break it.

We need to feel that life is important; we need that fantasy so we can live a little better.

When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.

Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.

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.

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

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