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Santiago Calatrava
Santiago Calatrava
Spanish Architect
Born: Jul 28, 1951
Architecture Art Building People Work You
The first significant work I did was a railway station in Zurich called Stadelhofen. Santiago Calatrava
Work First Station Significant Did Railway
The reality is that throughout my career I've tackled projects in Spain that I'm proud of. Santiago Calatrava
Reality Projects Tackled Throughout Proud Spain Career
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
Change People Hundreds Thousands About Make Boxes Prototype How Times Reproduce Conform Apartments Ask Then View Used Even Designed
The Taj Mahal is a monument to love in all cultures. Santiago Calatrava
Love Monument Cultures To Love
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
I've never been interested in pure movement or pure stability, but in the unstable. Santiago Calatrava
Pure Never Unstable Been Stability Movement Interested
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. Santiago Calatrava
Life Me Wife My Life Partner Framed Has-Been Only Supported Also She Been Years Person Closest Working Helped
Like Grand Central Station, which is a marvelous building, the design and engineering of the Oculus will endure for many generations to come. Santiago Calatrava
Will Building Engineering Design Station Marvelous Generations Come Like Endure Grand Which Central Many
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
Buy Best Me Feeling Looking Other Station Enter Recognize Booth Eye Critical See Guy Marvelous Except He Like Ticket Built How Passenger Go Up Train Any Which Might Held
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
Life Time Quality Key Three Example Thanks Creation Project Citizens City Clear Quality Of Life How Integration Improve Canal Same Same Time Banks Urban Successful Bridges Element Growth
Bridges and stations are very strongly related to the development of a city. Santiago Calatrava
Related Stations City Strongly Development Very Bridges
I've always had a dream about New York. New York is an island… those bridges… the skyline… the dynamism. Santiago Calatrava
Those Dream About Had New Island Always York New York Dynamism Skyline Bridges
Bridges with cables very easily resemble stringed instruments. Santiago Calatrava
Easily Instruments Very Resemble Bridges
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
Beautiful You World Other Once Francisco Distinguish Bay Would Would-Be Had Put Along Beautiful Places Built Been Any Any Other Place Golden San Pacific Place San Francisco Places Coast Many Bridge Second Gate Imagine
Rio de Janeiro has captured my imagination. Santiago Calatrava
Imagination Rio Captured
My ambition is to give Oakland's cathedral a universal character independent of the Catholic Church. Santiago Calatrava
Character Church Ambition Independent Oakland Give Cathedral Catholic Catholic Church Universal
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. Santiago Calatrava
Attitude Nature Man Will Profit Our Saw Bit 21st Century Something Towards Different Centuries Century Use
I always admired the U.S. as the country of the space shuttle, of technological achievement. Santiago Calatrava
Achievement Space Country Admired Always Space Shuttle Technological Shuttle
You have to live with the necessities of other people. Santiago Calatrava
You People Live Other Necessities
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
Love Music Heart Theatre Architecture I Am Important Think Though All My Heart I Love Most Am Arts Achievements The Most Important Biggest Really Convinced Sculpture Paintings Among Humans
I don't see any difference between architecture and engineering. It's the same profession. Santiago Calatrava
Architecture Engineering See Between Same Any Difference Profession
Women are the salt of our lives. They give it flavour. Santiago Calatrava
Women Salt Our Our Lives Give Women Are Lives
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
Hope Good Construction People Better Important Build Understanding Sense Think Other Progression I Think Through Deliver Better Understanding Message Achieved Certain Each
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
The two most important functional aspects to be fulfilled in a transportation facility are ease of wayfinding and easy orientation. Santiago Calatrava
Important Ease Easy Facility Most Fulfilled Aspects Transportation Orientation Functional Two
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
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