Quotes by Santiago Calatrava - Page 3

Think about what happens when architecture becomes ruins. All you have left are some little columns on a cliff, but it's still such an overwhelming experience that you could say architecture is that which makes ruins beautiful.
Santiago Calatrava / Architect
Experience
Architecture
Columns
Left
Overwhelming
Ruins
Little
Becomes
Cliff
Could
Still
Makes
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Technology is an important element in progress. See, we can always do something better. We can improve water technology, or energy efficiency. There is always progress forward using technology and that's where innovation starts.
Santiago Calatrava / Architect
Technology
Innovation
Water
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These three qualities I recommend to you; tenacity, goodness, and intelligence. They are as valuable today as they were in the time of the ancient Greeks, Romans and during the renaissance. They will help make you good professionals.
Santiago Calatrava / Architect
Quality
Greek
Three
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Something that's very important is to preserve the sense of surprise, the sense of discovery. The eye of the person you are talking to, your shadow on the ground. It's important not to get suffocated by all the things in life and lose that sense of surprise.
Santiago Calatrava / Architect
Discovery
Shadow
Surprise
Preserve
Suffocated
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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 / Architect
Architect
North America
Toronto
Charge
Proposed
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The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's also related to geometry and a certain understanding of the architecture in which there is a balance between expression and function.
Santiago Calatrava / Architect
Architecture
Balance
Bones
Building
Certain
Expression
Function
Geometry
Related
Structure
Understanding
Stand
Between
Fact
Physical
Stand Up
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I became a fanatic of the architecture of Le Corbusier and I visited almost all his buildings and read all his books. Only later on did I discover that all the things that impressed me in his books, particular his ideology, he had picked up from Auguste Perret.
Santiago Calatrava / Architect
Architecture
Ideology
Impressed
Particular
Almost
Almost All
Books
Became
Buildings
Read
Discover
Fanatic
Picked
Visited
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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 / Architect
Beautiful Places
Coast
Golden
Pacific
San Francisco
Any Other Place
Bay
Bridge
Distinguish
Francisco
Gate
San
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The architect is very interesting because the architect is the commander, meaning the one who commands all the workers. The architect is also the music director and composer. He cannot play each instrument, but he needs to understand and embody the sense of each part.
Santiago Calatrava / Architect
Interesting
Needs
Play
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I have built already seven very large railway stations: one in Italy; two in Belgium; and in France, and in Switzerland, in Portugal, and also in the United States. And what happens is that stations are not things that come from one day to another, it takes many years.
Santiago Calatrava / Architect
Belgium
Portugal
Railway
Switzerland
Italy
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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 / Architect
Quality
Bridges
Citizens
Clear
Creation
Example
Growth
Integration
Quality Of Life
Successful
Thanks
Three
Urban
Life Time Growth
Life Time City
Banks
Canal
Element
Project
Same Time
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I love the construction process and it is always important because we try to experiment and do something new, so the builders are not copying any technique from other projects. Everything is innovative and so I need to be there and be attentive to make sure everything is running smoothly.
Santiago Calatrava / Architect
Running
Important
Trying
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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 / Architect
Marvelous
Best Me See
Booth
Enter
Passenger
Ticket
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Building a bridge, in my opinion, is a symbolic gesture, linked with the needs of people who cross over it, and with the idea of overcoming or surmounting obstacles. A modern bridge can also be a work of art. It helps to shape our daily lives and becomes a vital experience for all the people who use it.
Santiago Calatrava / Architect
Experience
Building
Linked
Modern
Needs
Obstacles
Opinion
Over It
Symbolic
Art Work Experience
Becomes
Bridge
Idea
Cross
Daily
Daily Lives
Work Experience Art
Gesture
Helps
In My Opinion
Shape
Vital
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When I was in architecture school, I became curious about the exact mathematics, physics, and construction of the great structures I had been studying. I wanted to know how these amazing things would work: the Pantheon, the dome of Michelangelo, the dome of Brunelleschi. So I decided to study civil engineering.
Santiago Calatrava / Architect
Amazing
Amazing Things
Construction
Curious
Decided
Engineering
Physics
Study
Work Great Amazing
Became
Civil
Dome
Exact
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The concept of an "architect" is one of the oldest professions in the world. Whereas, some professions, such as a "lawyer", have their roots in Latin, "Archi - tecton" is actually a Greek word, and much older. Just knowing how old the profession is gives me hope that we will still exist for years to come, even if we are changing.
Santiago Calatrava / Architect
Latin
Roots
Years
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What each school offers is something unique. But, there are two types of activity an architect must be educated on. First, the architect needs concentrated activities to learn the guidelines, and that is what school is for. But, second, is the public aspect of education. The architect needs to see architecture in the streets to learn.
Santiago Calatrava / Architect
School
Two
Unique
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For me, architecture is an art the same as painting is an art or sculpture is an art. Yet, architecture moves a step beyond painting and sculpture because it is more than using materials. Architecture responds to functional outputs and environmental factors. Yet, fundamentally, it is important for me to stress the art in architecture to bring harmony.
Santiago Calatrava / Architect
Art
Moving
Stress
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Vitruvius, the great writer, architect and engineer, identified in his famous treatise on Architecture that the three values essential to any work of Architecture were: firmitas, utilitas, and venustas; or firmness, utility, and delight. Firmness meaning well built, solid and resistant; utility meaning useful and functional, and delight meaning beautiful.
Santiago Calatrava / Architect
Beautiful
Essentials
Three
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