Friday, February 12, 2010

For Calatrava Architecture is...

Lots of fun facts in this New Yorker, Sep. 2008...I feel like a kid in a candy store, wanting to taste (read & share) everything...

Santiago Calatrava, one of the great Starchitects of our time on architecture: "You can penetrate architecture, you can enter into it...This room is part of ourselves in this moment. I think it is important to build for people, and to deliver this message of hope: through good construction and a certain sense of progression, a better understanding of each other can be achieved. All those things, in modesty, are what I have tried to convey."

Calatrava on building in marginal, industrial districts: "When you work in those places, you have to do very strong gestures. If you make a shy building, no one will go there."

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