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I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness. Zaha Hadid

Cities Find Toughness Exciting Like Industrial

I always admired the U.S. as the country of the space shuttle, of technological achievement. Santiago Calatrava

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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. Santiago Calatrava

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Beautiful is difficult. I admire very much the courage of the people who have said, 'Let's do something different. Let's try to see if our environment will be more beautiful and our city will be more beautiful.' Santiago Calatrava

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Imagine for a second that the Golden Gate had not been built. This place in the San Francisco Bay would be one of the many beautiful places along the Pacific Coast - but that's all. Once you put the bridge there, you distinguish it from any other place in the world. Santiago Calatrava

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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. Santiago Calatrava

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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. Santiago Calatrava

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You must understand the difference between being an architect and a politician. Architecture is a profession of perseverance. You have to come through. The politician is there to blame someone. Santiago Calatrava

You Perseverance Blame Architecture Politician Must Architect Someone Through Between Come Understand Difference Being Profession

Many of the architects I admire have given the best of themselves as they mature. I'm hoping to do the same. Santiago Calatrava

Best Hoping Admire Architects Given Mature Same Themselves Many

I visited Notre Dame at 11 in the morning and the sun was entering through the south rose window, it was so impressive. This is when architecture can be king and give people sensations, like music. Santiago Calatrava

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When I work on sculpture, I don't have to worry about function. When I work on a piece of architecture, I must think about function all the time. Santiago Calatrava

Work Time Architecture Think Worry Must About Piece Sculpture Function

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. Santiago Calatrava

Construction Architecture Result Creation Engineering Distinction Objects Only Both Between Schools Disciplines Bureaucratic Difference Landscape

Architecture is a code. It's a pure code, derived from the dimensions of nature. Santiago Calatrava

Nature Architecture Pure Dimensions Derived Code

Architecture is a wrapping for the human body, and dance is the finest expression of the body. Santiago Calatrava

Architecture Dance Wrapping Finest Human Human Body Body Expression

Architecture is one of the art forms best able to improve and revitalise cities both artistically and functionally. Santiago Calatrava

Art Best Architecture Cities Able Both Art Forms Improve Forms

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

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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. Santiago Calatrava

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. Santiago Calatrava

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What I do is the opposite of building walls. I build bridges. A bridge is something that connects instead of separating. Santiago Calatrava

Walls Build Building Something Instead Opposite Separating Bridge Bridges Connects

The Huashan project is a clear example of how an urban element, key to the successful growth of the city, can at the same time improve the quality of life for its citizens, thanks to an integration of all three bridges and the creation of boulevards on the banks of the canal. Santiago Calatrava

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

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