Santiago Calatrava : (6)

" Something that’s very important is to preserve the sense of surprise, the sense of discovery. The eye of the person you are talking to, your shadow on the ground. It’s important not to get suffocated by all the things in life and lose that sense of surprise. " - Santiago Calatrava

" 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

" I remember, many years ago, coming over the Brooklyn Bridge in the night and seeing the skyline of Manhattan, with the Twin Towers. This was, for me, a kind of religious experience. " - Santiago Calatrava

" My ambition is to give Oakland’s cathedral a universal character independent of the Catholic Church. " - Santiago Calatrava

" My goal is always to create something exceptional that enhances cities and enriches the lives of the people who live and work in them. " - Santiago Calatrava

" For the first project I did in North America, I was asked as an artist, not as an architect, to collaborate on a big development in the heart of Toronto. I was working with other artists and was in charge of giving form to a street, and I proposed a galleria. " - Santiago Calatrava