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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.

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It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.

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When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.

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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.

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Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.

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I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.

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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.

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The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go.

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Surprise is key in all art.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: Brazilian

Type: Architect

Born: December 15th, 1907

Died: December 5th, 2012

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