Architecture is a code. It's a pure code, derived from the dimensions of nature. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
What architecture does is what a coat does for our body. It wraps us. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Architecture, like dance, is also a language - one that everybody understands. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
The world of sculpture precedes by many years the world of architecture. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Being an architect is like playing piano, you learn to play to admire how well the other guys play piano. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Architecture is a wrapping for the human body, and dance is the finest expression of the body. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Because of the nature of the profession of architecture, the art of architecture nourishes itself from other disciplines. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
My private work is touched by this destiny of understanding that architecture and engineering have a social character and can serve the… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Many of the architects I admire have given the best of themselves as they mature. I'm hoping to do the same. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Later works are better because it takes a lot of time in architecture to mature. And, it takes a lot of discipline… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
The architect needs to learn to see, and to open his eyes because there is always a lesson to learn from the… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
I don't see any difference between architecture and engineering. It's the same profession. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
The architect is very interesting because the architect is the commander, meaning the one who commands all the workers. The architect is… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
What each school offers is something unique. But, there are two types of activity an architect must be educated on. First, the… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
The concept of an "architect" is one of the oldest professions in the world. Whereas, some professions, such as a "lawyer", have… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
For the first project I did in North America, I was asked as an artist, not as an architect, to collaborate on… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
The difference between architecture and engineering comes in only with the creation of schools. It's a bureaucratic distinction. The result of both… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
I visited Notre Dame at 11 in the morning and the sun was entering through the south rose window, it was so… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
When I was in architecture school, I became curious about the exact mathematics, physics, and construction of the great structures I had… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
I became a fanatic of the architecture of Le Corbusier and I visited almost all his buildings and read all his books.… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Vitruvius, the great writer, architect and engineer, identified in his famous treatise on Architecture that the three values essential to any work… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
For me, architecture is an art the same as painting is an art or sculpture is an art. Yet, architecture moves a… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
You could say that I had become possessed, in the classical sense, by the art of the great architects of the past.… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
The architect holds much knowledge, but is not a specialist. Especially with the computer and technology, the amount of knowledge an architect… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
As an architect, you do not have control of who will build the building and who will have the capability. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
When I moved to Switzerland to study at ETH Zurich I became fascinated by Swiss architecture. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
The architect works for so many years building it, and the moment you deliver it to the people is the moment when… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Architecture is one of the art forms best able to improve and revitalise cities both artistically and functionally. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
There is one way that architecture is superior to sculpture, and that is scale. You can walk into a building and have… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
When I work on sculpture, I don't have to worry about function. When I work on a piece of architecture, I must… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
I am an engineer, not just an architect, so I've always been motivated by technique or technology. As soon as technology moves… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
You must understand the difference between being an architect and a politician. Architecture is a profession of perseverance. You have to come… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
I paint and work as a sculptor, and I see architecture as an art... If you follow this approach you can use… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Think about what happens when architecture becomes ruins. All you have left are some little columns on a cliff, but it's still… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Though I love the arts with all my heart - paintings, sculpture, theatre, and music - and think they are among the… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
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… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
The architect is very interesting because the architect is the commander, meaning the one who commands all the workers. The architect is also the… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
I remember, many years ago, coming over the Brooklyn Bridge in the night and seeing the skyline of Manhattan, with the Twin Towers. This… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
I've never been interested in pure movement or pure stability, but in the unstable. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
The concept of an "architect" is one of the oldest professions in the world. Whereas, some professions, such as a "lawyer", have their roots… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
There is a change in the view about how condominiums are designed. People used to make prototype apartments and reproduce these boxes hundreds and… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Bridges represent archetypal problems. They are artifacts that bring you across or around an obstacle. So they have an unbelievable force. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
There was a wish to get something exceptional, ... I also wanted to deliver something technically unique. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
I always considered the role of teaching to be very noble and relevant. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
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… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Many of the architects I admire have given the best of themselves as they mature. I'm hoping to do the same. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
