- Extraordinary
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Architecture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an engineer, not just an architect, so I've always been motivated by technique or technology. As soon as technology moves just a little bit, it changes architecture.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
My private work is touched by this destiny of understanding that architecture and engineering have a social character and can serve the community.
- Bridge
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- Nov 07, 2020
A bridge is born of necessity, but it must establish its own identity. It should harmonize with its surroundings, and the design must transcend the purely local and transform the setting.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
Building a bridge, in my opinion, is a symbolic gesture, linked with the needs of people who cross over it, and with the idea of overcoming or surmounting obstacles. A modern bridge can also be a work of art. It helps to shape our daily lives and becomes a vital experience for all the people who use it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Valencia is a pure Mediterranean city; it is a city like Naples or Palermo, like Rome a little bit. Walking in the old town has a little bit of the flavor of the old city of Rome.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
For people of the younger generation, the 21st century has started for them with a positive sign that Valencia is and will continue to be a very modern city.
- Balance
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's also related to geometry and a certain understanding of the architecture in which there is a balance between expression and function.
- Buildings
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became a fanatic of the architecture of Le Corbusier and I visited almost all his buildings and read all his books. Only later on did I discover that all the things that impressed me in his books, particular his ideology, he had picked up from Auguste Perret.
- Enhances
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- Nov 07, 2020
My goal is always to create something exceptional that enhances cities and enriches the lives of the people who live and work in them.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always admired the U.S. as the country of the space shuttle, of technological achievement.
- Nov 07, 2020
As an architect, you do not have control of who will build the building and who will have the capability.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reality is that throughout my career I've tackled projects in Spain that I'm proud of.
- Criticisms
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- Nov 07, 2020
I understand and accept criticisms of my work, provided they are done with professional criteria and arguments.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of the architects I admire have given the best of themselves as they mature. I'm hoping to do the same.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some have tried to use my work for politics, using inaccurate or out-of-context information that, repeated enough, becomes truth to some even though it is not.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because of the nature of the profession of architecture, the art of architecture nourishes itself from other disciplines.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first significant work I did was a railway station in Zurich called Stadelhofen.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Difficult Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my opinion, as an engineer, a bridge is the most difficult thing you can do. You are not working in the direction of gravity but against it - so the problem opposes the solution.
- Other
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to live with the necessities of other people.
- Endure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like Grand Central Station, which is a marvelous building, the design and engineering of the Oculus will endure for many generations to come.
- Architecture
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- Nov 07, 2020