Working with artistic people is very special, especially when they are so professional. — 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 would like to be an artist who works in a very closed ambience. — 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
Because of the nature of the profession of architecture, the art of architecture nourishes itself from other disciplines. — 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
Building a bridge, in my opinion, is a symbolic gesture, linked with the needs of people who cross over it, and with… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Many architects say that they will never do a bridge. But I think they will discover that just as Fallingwater is a… — 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
The function of arts centers goes far beyond being places for performance. They might not be explicitly religious, but they are civic… — 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
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
Architecture is one of the art forms best able to improve and revitalise cities both artistically and functionally. — 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
