Best quotes by Santiago Calatrava on Architecture

Checkout quotes by Santiago Calatrava on Architecture

• ‟ 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.

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

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• ‟ I am an engineer, not just an architect, so I've always been motivated by technique or technology. As soon as technology moves just a little bit, it changes architecture.

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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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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ Because of the nature of the profession of architecture, the art of architecture nourishes itself from other disciplines.

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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.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ When I moved to Switzerland to study at ETH Zurich I became fascinated by Swiss architecture.

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

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ There is one way that architecture is superior to sculpture, and that is scale. You can walk into a building and have it all around you.

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• ‟ Architecture is one of the art forms best able to improve and revitalise cities both artistically and functionally.

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