“In the 19th and 20th centuries we saw nature as something to use to ou...” — Santiago Calatrava Quote

“In the 19th and 20th centuries we saw nature as something to use to our profit, but the attitude of man towards nature in the 21st century will be a bit different.”

“I would like to be an artist who works in a very closed ambience.”

“A first building is like a first novel, it is always autobiographical.”

“For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.”

“No state, as a matter of public policy, should turn back the clock on progress by, in effect, legalizing and relitigating the same types of discriminatory laws and debates that took America centuries to overcome.”

“Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.”