Santiago Calatrava best Architecture Quotes – “Think about what happens when architecture becomes ruins. All you have left are some little columns on a cliff, but it’s still such an overwhelming experience that you could say architecture is that which makes ruins beautiful.”
Santiago Calatrava best Architecture Quotes – “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 best Architecture Quotes – “Architecture is one of the art forms best able to improve and revitalise cities both artistically and functionally.”
Santiago Calatrava best Architecture Quotes – “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.”
Santiago Calatrava best Architecture Quotes – “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 best Architecture Quotes – “The world of sculpture precedes by many years the world of architecture.”
Santiago Calatrava best Architecture Quotes – “When I moved to Switzerland to study at ETH Zurich I became fascinated by Swiss architecture.”
Santiago Calatrava best Architecture Quotes – “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.”
Santiago Calatrava best Architecture Quotes – “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.”
Santiago Calatrava best Architecture Quotes – “Because of the nature of the profession of architecture, the art of architecture nourishes itself from other disciplines.”
Santiago Calatrava best Architecture Quotes – “My private work is touched by this destiny of understanding that architecture and engineering have a social character and can serve the community.”