Right Angles Don't Attract Me.

It Is Not The Right Angle That Attracts Me, Nor The Straight Line, Hard And Inflexible, Created By Man. What Attracts Me Is The Free And Sensual Curve - The Curve That I Find In The Mountains Of My Country, In The Sinuous Course Of Its Rivers, In The Body Of The Beloved Woman.

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.

Architecture Will Always Express The Technical And Social Progress Of The Country In Which It Is Carried Out. If We Wish To Give It The Human Content That It Lacks, We Must Participate In The Political Struggle.

Curves Are The Essence Of My Work Because They Are The Essence Of Brazil, Pure And Simple.

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