Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

Oscar Niemeyer
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  1. Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

  2. My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

  3. Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

  4. My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see how it is constructed. I put the structure outside.

  5. Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.

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