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Santiago Calatrava

Santiago Calatrava Valls (born 28 July 1951) is a Spanish architect, structural engineer, sculptor and painter, particularly known for his bridges supported by single leaning pylons, and his railway stations, stadiums, and museums, whose sculptural forms often resemble living organisms. His best-known works include the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Turning Torso tower in Malmö, Sweden, the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in Dallas, Texas, and his largest project, the City of Arts and Sciences and Opera House, in his birthplace, Valencia. His architectural firm has offices in New York City, Doha, and Zürich.

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The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of creativity to each building.

Brings, Building, Composer, Creativity, Directors, Sense

Vitruvius, the great writer, architect and engineer, identified in his famous treatise on Architecture that the three values essential to any work of Architecture were: firmitas, utilitas, and venustas; or firmness, utility, and delight. Firmness meaning well built, solid and resistant; utility meaning useful and functional, and delight meaning beautiful.

Beautiful, Built, Essentials, Three, Venustas, Writer

I think it is important to be present in the places where you are working. It is not only about doing a project, but following the project through its construction.

Construction, Important, Present, Project, Thinking, Working

For me, architecture is an art the same as painting is an art or sculpture is an art. Yet, architecture moves a step beyond painting and sculpture because it is more than using materials. Architecture responds to functional outputs and environmental factors. Yet, fundamentally, it is important for me to stress the art in architecture to bring harmony.

Art, Materials, Moving, Painting, Step, Stress

I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.

Architecture, Art, Sculpture

There was a wish to get something exceptional,. . . I also wanted to deliver something technically unique.

Deliver, Exceptional, Technically, Unique, Wish

Technology is a vocabulary and a language in which you can say many things.

Language, Say, Technology, Things, Vocabulary

The most touching thing that anyone can say to me is that I have done something beautiful for the community.

Beautiful, Community, Done, Thing, Touching

It's very atmospheric. It's not a building that is a severe statement in the skyline. We need the height; otherwise, the building almost disappears because it is so slender.

Atmospheric, Disappears, Height, Needs, Skylines, Slender

The concept of an "architect" is one of the oldest professions in the world. Whereas, some professions, such as a "lawyer", have their roots in Latin, "Archi - tecton" is actually a Greek word, and much older. Just knowing how old the profession is gives me hope that we will still exist for years to come, even if we are changing.

Actually, Architect, Latin, Lawyer, Roots, Years

The architect needs to learn to see, and to open his eyes because there is always a lesson to learn from the streets.

Eye, Lesson, Lessons, Needs, Open, Streets

As a building is resistant to forces acting upon it, a person must be equally tenacious in life.

Acting, Building, Equally, Force, Life, Resistant

I love the construction process and it is always important because we try to experiment and do something new, so the builders are not copying any technique from other projects. Everything is innovative and so I need to be there and be attentive to make sure everything is running smoothly.

Attentive, Builders, Everything, Important, Running, Trying

I am always searching for more light and space.

Architecture, Light, Searching, Space

The architect is very interesting because the architect is the commander, meaning the one who commands all the workers. The architect is also the music director and composer. He cannot play each instrument, but he needs to understand and embody the sense of each part.

Architect, Directors, Embody, Instrument, Interesting, Play

Later works are better because it takes a lot of time in architecture to mature. And, it takes a lot of discipline to experience everything that is changing around you.

Architecture, Discipline, Mature, Takes, Works