Santiago Calatrava Quotes

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Santiago Calatrava

Profession : Architect

Birth : July 28, 1951

Women are the salt of our lives. They give it flavour.

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My closest partner and the person I have been working with for 35 years has been my wife. She not only supported me and helped me but also framed my life.

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The city of Rio de Janeiro is setting an example to the world of how to recover quality urban spaces through drastic intervention and the creation of cultural facilities such as the Museum of Tomorrow.

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The difference between architecture and engineering comes in only with the creation of schools. It's a bureaucratic distinction. The result of both disciplines is the construction of objects in a landscape.

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The best is to go into a train station that I've built and buy a ticket. The guy in the ticket booth might recognize me, which is a marvelous feeling, but it might be that he doesn't and I go in like any other passenger, except that I enter with a critical eye, looking to see how it's held up.

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Bridges and stations are very strongly related to the development of a city.

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I remember, many years ago, coming over the Brooklyn Bridge in the night and seeing the skyline of Manhattan, with the Twin Towers. This was, for me, a kind of religious experience.

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I did not want to do stereotypical buildings.

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Airports need an identity, a main hall that defines the dignity of the space and allows people to move fluidly throughout its ancillary parts.

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I've always had a dream about New York. New York is an island... those bridges... the skyline... the dynamism.

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New York is not a place that lets you be indifferent. New York is this kind of place that, wherever you go, wherever you move, you are always confronted by your own time.

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New York is the city of the 21st century.

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Working with artistic people is very special, especially when they are so professional.

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I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.

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Not only did America invent the skyscraper, it invented the skyline.

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I don't see any difference between architecture and engineering. It's the same profession.

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There is a change in the view about how condominiums are designed. People used to make prototype apartments and reproduce these boxes hundreds and even thousands of times, and then ask people to conform.

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I paint and work as a sculptor, and I see architecture as an art... If you follow this approach you can use techniques to the service of man and to the service of an artistic idea, and beauty.

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In the 19th and 20th centuries we saw nature as something to use to our profit, but the attitude of man towards nature in the 21st century will be a bit different.

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Chicago is a beautiful city with a wonderful skyline.

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