I Am A Brazilian Before I Am

We Hated Bauhaus. It Was A Bad Time In Architecture. They Just Didn’t Have Any Talent. All They Had Were Rules. Even For Knives And Forks They Created Rules. Picasso Would Never Have Accepted Rules. The House Is Like A Machine? No! The Mechanical Is Ugly. The Rule Is The Worst Thing. You Just Want To Break It.

I Pick Up My Pen. It Flows. A Building Appears. There It Is. There Is Nothing More To Say.

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 Since.

There Is No Reason To Design Buildings That Are More Basic And Rectilinear, Because With Concrete You Can Cover Almost Any Space.

I Think Of Myself As No More Than 60. What I Could Do At 60, I Can Still Do Now.