Santiago Calatrava quotes

Santiago Calatrava is a renowned Spanish architect, structural engineer, and artist, celebrated for his bold and futuristic designs. Many of his works, such as the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia and the Turning Torso in Sweden, blend architecture with sculptural forms. He is internationally recognized for his innovative approach to both engineering and aesthetics. Here are 76 of his quotes:

The two most important functional aspects to be fulfilled in a transportation facility are ease of wayfinding and easy orientation.

Santiago Calatrava

I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.

Santiago Calatrava

New York City has a tradition of great stations. There are cities in the world that don't have that. New York has it.

Santiago Calatrava

The architect needs to learn to see, and to open his eyes because there is always a lesson to learn from the streets.

Santiago Calatrava

The way is not always easy, but in order to bring a work through to completion, you will need a strong character, a broad foundation of knowledge and an enormous force of persuasion.

Santiago Calatrava

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

I have always tried to create bridges that are more than a connecting structure - places in their own right.

Santiago Calatrava

What architecture does is what a coat does for our body. It wraps us.

Santiago Calatrava

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.

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My private work is touched by this destiny of understanding that architecture and engineering have a social character and can serve the community.

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The reality is that throughout my career I've tackled projects in Spain that I'm proud of.

Santiago Calatrava

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

Santiago Calatrava

You could say that I had become possessed, in the classical sense, by the art of the great architects of the past. And that led me to engineering.

Santiago Calatrava

The architect works for so many years building it, and the moment you deliver it to the people is the moment when you are unnecessary.

Santiago Calatrava

The world of sculpture precedes by many years the world of architecture.

Santiago Calatrava

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

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

When I found I could not figure something out, I decided to learn about it, until I knew as much as I could. It's my way.

Santiago Calatrava

Working with artistic people is very special, especially when they are so professional.

Santiago Calatrava

I don't see any difference between architecture and engineering. It's the same profession.

Santiago Calatrava

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

The idea of spirituality is difficult to discuss.

Santiago Calatrava