Santiago Calatrava Quotes

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Santiago Calatrava

Profession : Architect

Birth : July 28, 1951

The idea of spirituality is difficult to discuss.

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The Taj Mahal is a monument to love in all cultures.

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My ambition is to give Oakland's cathedral a universal character independent of the Catholic Church.

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Rio de Janeiro has captured my imagination.

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The function of arts centers goes far beyond being places for performance. They might not be explicitly religious, but they are civic and social spaces.

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The movement of many people through a building can be musical, if the movement is harmonious, rational, but full of life and feeling.

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I don't go running after publicity.

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My architecture is very much place-related.

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New York City has a tradition of great stations. There are cities in the world that don't have that. New York has it.

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Bridges with cables very easily resemble stringed instruments.

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Many architects say that they will never do a bridge. But I think they will discover that just as Fallingwater is a piece of art, so Golden Gate is a piece of art of the 20th century.

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Bridges join places that were separated. They are built for the sake of progress and for the average citizen. They even have a religious dimension. Even the word 'religious' comes from the Latin, meaning 'creating a link.'

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If I was not born in this lifetime in New York, certainly in a previous life, I was a New Yorker.

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Though I love the arts with all my heart - paintings, sculpture, theatre, and music - and think they are among the biggest achievements we humans can do, I am really convinced that architecture is among the most important.

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I think it is important to build for people, and to deliver this message of hope: through good construction and a certain sense of progression, a better understanding of each other can be achieved.

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My personality is more the personality of a painter.

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I have always tried to create bridges that are more than a connecting structure - places in their own right.

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The two most important functional aspects to be fulfilled in a transportation facility are ease of wayfinding and easy orientation.

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It is very important to visit the Oculus at a moment in which the skylight is open. Through the enormous 240′ x 20′ opening, we are framing a piece of Manhattan's sky.

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