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I Search For Surprise In My Architecture. A Work Of Art Should Cause The Emotion Of Newness.

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.

We Need To Feel That Life Is Important; We Need That Fantasy So We Can Live A Little Better.

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 That It Lacks, We Must Participate In The Political Struggle.