Oscar Niemeyer

Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for…

Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if…

Architecture is my work, and I’ve spent my whole life at a drawing board, but…

Architecture is invention…

Form follows beauty…

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

My work is not about ‘form follows function,’ but ‘form follows beauty’ or, even better…

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion…

For me beauty is valued more than anything – the beauty that is manifest in a…

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

There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with…

Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it…