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.

The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go.

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

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

I was attracted by the curve — the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so often recalled in venerable old baroque churches.

Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of the fact that what is important is life, friends and attempting to make this unjust world a better place in which to live.

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