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….

I have always accepted and respected all other schools of architecture, from the chill and elemental structures of Mies van der Rohe to the imaginati….

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

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

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

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

Architecture was my way of expressing my ideals: to be simple, to create a world equal to everyone, to look at people with optimism, that everyone ha….

Surprise is key in all art..

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

I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs..

The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness..

In architecture it isn't enough to just have the right building that works well. It can also be beautiful. It can also be different. It can create su….

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..

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 sin….

Architecture is invention..

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

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

We have to have dreams, even if they never come true..

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….

My work is not about "form follows function," but "form follows beauty" or, even better, "form follows feminine.".

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