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Here, Then, Is What I Wanted To Tell You Of My Architecture. I Created It With Courage And Idealism, But Also With An Awareness Of The Fact That What Is Important Is Life, Friends And Attempting To Make This Unjust World A Better Place In Which To Live.

It Is Not With Architecture That One Can Disseminate Any Political Ideology.

It Was The Drawing That Led Me To Architecture, The Search For Light And Astonishing Forms.

Of Course, I Have Given My Engineers Some Headaches Over The Years, But They Go With Me. I Have Always Wanted My Buildings To Be As Light As Possible, To Touch The Ground Gently, To Swoop And Soar, And To Surprise.

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