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.

I have always accepted and respected all other schools of architecture, from the chill and elemental structures of Mies van der Rohe to the imagination and delirium of Gaudi. I must design what pleases me in a way that is naturally linked to my roots and the country of my origin.

For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.

Turning 102 is crap, and there is nothing to commemorate.

I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.

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.