Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.

I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.

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.

Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my friends and feeling what is happening in this world.