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I Deliberately Disregarded The Right Angle And Rationalist Architecture Designed With Ruler And Square To Boldly Enter The World Of Curves And Straight Lines Offered By Reinforced Concrete... This Deliberate Protest Arose From The Environment In Which I Lived, With Its White Beaches, Its Huge Mountains, Its Old Baroque Churches, And The Beautiful Suntanned Women.

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

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 Modest. Everyone Creates Their Own Story And Moves On. That’s It. I Don’t Feel Particularly Important. What We Create Is Not Important. We’re Very Insignificant.

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.

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 Human Beings.