49 Santiago Calatrava Quotes for You to Enjoy

Santiago Calatrava

Spanish Architect

Born: Jul 28, 1951

Architecture Art Building People Work You

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

Music Morning People Architecture King Rose Sun Entering Visited Window Give Through Like South Impressive Sensations Notre Dame Dame

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

Because of the nature of the profession of architecture, the art of architecture nourishes itself from other disciplines. Santiago Calatrava

Art Nature Architecture Other Because Disciplines Itself Nourishes Profession

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

Progress Word Citizen Latin Dimension Religious Join Built Sake Were Link Places Meaning Average Creating Separated Bridges Even

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

Beautiful Courage People Try Will Difficult Our City Admire See Something More Environment Said Very Different Much Who

Something that has been every important to me in all my projects has been location, the place where they are installed. Santiago Calatrava

Me Important Every Projects Location Has-Been Something Been Where Place

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

Work Service Art You Man Architecture Beauty Approach I See Follow See Idea Artistic Sculptor Use Paint Techniques

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

You Problem Engineer Difficult Solution Direction Most Most Difficult Thing Opinion In My Opinion Against Working Bridge Thing Gravity Difficult Thing

The Freedom Tower has a cost overrun. A significant cost overrun. Santiago Calatrava

Freedom Significant Cost Tower Overrun

I like the word monument, because the word monument is a Latin word. Santiago Calatrava

Word Latin Monument Like Because

A new building should deliver a feeling of hope. Santiago Calatrava

Hope Feeling Building Deliver New Should

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. Santiago Calatrava

A railway station is something that can generate a city. Santiago Calatrava

Station City Something Generate Railway

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. Santiago Calatrava

Time You Own Kind Indifferent New Always Go York Move New York Wherever Place Confronted Your Lets