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Santiago Calatrava quotes - page 3
I've never been interested in pure movement or pure stability, but in the unstable.
Santiago Calatrava
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
The Taj Mahal is a monument to love in all cultures.
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
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
Airports need an identity, a main hall that defines the dignity of the space and allows people to move fluidly throughout its ancillary parts.
Santiago Calatrava
I always considered the role of teaching to be very noble and relevant.
Santiago Calatrava
You need to know a lot to become master of your profession.
Santiago Calatrava
New York is the city of the 21st century.
Santiago Calatrava
I did not want to do stereotypical buildings.
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
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
The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of creativity to each building.
Santiago Calatrava
I am always searching for more light and space.
Santiago Calatrava
The most touching thing that anyone can say to me is that I have done something beautiful for the community.
Santiago Calatrava
There was a wish to get something exceptional, ... I also wanted to deliver something technically unique.
Santiago Calatrava
As a building is resistant to forces acting upon it, a person must be equally tenacious in life.
Santiago Calatrava
Technology is a vocabulary and a language in which you can say many things.
Santiago Calatrava
It's very atmospheric. It's not a building that is a severe statement in the skyline. We need the height; otherwise, the building almost disappears because it is so slender.
Santiago Calatrava
Technology is constantly changing and brings you automatically into the present. In that way, it automatically makes you build for this time.
Santiago Calatrava
Later works are better because it takes a lot of time in architecture to mature. And, it takes a lot of discipline to experience everything that is changing around you.
Santiago Calatrava
I think it is important to be present in the places where you are working. It is not only about doing a project, but following the project through its construction.
Santiago Calatrava
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