Santiago Calatrava Quotes

Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot.

My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-story shack from the ground up that was awesome!

To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn't architecture unless it's alive. Alive is what art is. If it's not alive, it's dead, and it's not art.

Tech, in the sense of... putting things together, that goes back beyond memory for me.

Engineering or Technology is the making of things that did not previously exist, whereas science is the discovering of things that have long existed.

Studying engineering was natural for me; I was always interested in technology and building things.

I don't see any difference between architecture and engineering. It's the same profession.

I liked the challenge of designing and building things, figuring out how something works and how to make it better or apply it in a different way.

I love building things like robots, toys, and all of that.

I'm not a designer, I'm an inventor.

I like building.

I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.

We refuse to recognize problems of form, but only problems of building. Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result. Form, by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject.

I'm an inventor.

I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.

My training and my inclination is to invent.

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by things large and small. I wanted to know what made my watch tick, my radio play, and my house stand. I wanted to know who invented the bottle cap and who designed the bridge. I guess from early on I wanted to be an engineer.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

You could say I was too lazy to calculate, so I invented the computer.

I got no thrill from solving an integral equation, but I did get a thrill from building an exotic piece of equipment that worked.

It's really fun and challenging to build things that have never been built before.

Problem-solving is essential to engineering. Engineers are constantly on the lookout for a better way to do things.