Author Profile
Santiago Calatrava
1951 • Spanish • Architect
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Showing 66 quotesLike Grand Central Station, which is a marvelous building, the design and engineering of the Oculus will endure for many generations to come.— Santiago Calatrava
In my opinion, as an engineer, a bridge is the most difficult thing you can do. You are not working in the direction of gravity but against it - so the problem opposes the solution.— Santiago Calatrava
For the first project I did in North America, I was asked as an artist, not as an architect, to collaborate on a big development in the heart of Toronto. I was working with other artists and was in charge of giving form to a street, and I proposed a galleria.— Santiago Calatrava
The first significant work I did was a railway station in Zurich called Stadelhofen.— Santiago Calatrava
Some have tried to use my work for politics, using inaccurate or out-of-context information that, repeated enough, becomes truth to some even though it is not.— Santiago Calatrava
Many of the architects I admire have given the best of themselves as they mature. I'm hoping to do the same.— Santiago Calatrava
I understand and accept criticisms of my work, provided they are done with professional criteria and arguments.— Santiago Calatrava
The reality is that throughout my career I've tackled projects in Spain that I'm proud of.— Santiago Calatrava
As an architect, you do not have control of who will build the building and who will have the capability.— Santiago Calatrava
My goal is always to create something exceptional that enhances cities and enriches the lives of the people who live and work in them.— Santiago Calatrava
For people of the younger generation, the 21st century has started for them with a positive sign that Valencia is and will continue to be a very modern city.— Santiago Calatrava
There is so much vulgarity in the everyday, that when somebody has the pretension to do something extraordinary for the community, then you have to suffer.— Santiago Calatrava
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.'— Santiago Calatrava