Citations for "It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious."

"When I left the work world, I started designing my dream house. I dived into architecture and bought seven vacant lots. My plan was to build one house, move in, and build the next. If the next was better, I'd move in and sell the previous one - so on and so forth."

— Tom Anderson

"The impact of the creative industries, of design and architecture in particular, are of course economic and they are a great export opportunity."

— Matt Hancock

"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."

— Santiago Calatrava

"My private work is touched by this destiny of understanding that architecture and engineering have a social character and can serve the community."

— Santiago Calatrava

"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."

— Santiago Calatrava

"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."

— Santiago Calatrava