My ambition has always been to reduce a building's support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious and important the architecture is. That has been my life's work.

I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.

Life is very fleeting. It's important to be gentle and optimistic. We look behind and think what we've done in this life has been good. It was simple; it was m…

It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. What attracts me is the free and sensual curve - the cu…

She well knew the great architectural secret of decorating her constructions, and never descended to construct a decoration.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.

Man is the animal that draws lines which he himself then stumbles over. In the whole pattern of civilization there have been two tendencies, one toward straigh…