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

Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant..

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….

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….

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….

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

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

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….

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

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….

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

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

Architecture is my work, and Ive spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve hum….

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….

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

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

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

Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my frie….

Architecture does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can make life better..

Architecture is invention..

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….