My Ambition Has Always Been To Reduce

A Church Is Something Very Beautiful. It Is Nice When People Feel Happy In It. But I Am Not A Religious Man. Look At Us, And Then At The Infinity Of Space. We Are Rather Small Insignificant Creatures, Wouldn’t You Say?

Turning 102 Is Crap, And There Is Nothing To Commemorate.

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.

Right Angles Don't Attract Me. Nor Straight, Hard And Inflexible Lines Created By Man.

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.