Die Reisen des Santiago Calatrava (2000)

Actors

• Santiago Calatrava (actor)
• Marcel Hoehn (producer)
• Christoph Schaub (writer)
• Martin Witz (writer)
• Christoph Schaub (director)
• Fee Liechti (editor)

Genres

• Documentary

Calatrava, Santiago Filmography

• The Socialist, the Architect and the Twisted Tower
  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Die Reisen des Santiago Calatrava
  2000, role: actor , character name: Santiago Calatrava

Famous quotes by Santiago Calatrava:

"He taught readers that they deserve beauty and meaning and must demand it in their cities. He taught me, and many architects, that we must answer this demand and never stop challenging ourselves."

"I wanted to do a very slender building, and a very transparent one."

"I am very happy that people have understood our desire to develop this design beyond the ideas we first presented. Now we have taken everything a step further, in order to connect this building to the city around it."

"On a practical level, the design creates a new direct link to Governors Island for both tourists and Island workers from both Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. The system is very light, using only three supports, none of which stands in the water, so the shipping channels are left completely open."

"This is an opportunity to make something extremely practical and logical, which at the same time tries to inspire the imagination in a way that can happen only here, in New York Harbor."

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

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

"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."