Santiago Calatrava Valencian Spanish architect

Architect, artist, and engineer Santiago Calatrava was born on July 28,
1951, in the town of Benimamet, near Valencia, Spain and he lives in Zurich.
Sculptor and structural engineer with offices in
Zurich, Paris and Valencia. He has award winners
buildings all over the world.
Calatrava attended Primary and Secondary school in
Valencia. From the age of eight, he also attended
the Arts and Crafts School, where he began his
formal instruction in drawing and painting. When he
was thirteen, his family took advantage of the
recent opening of the borders and sent him to Paris
as an exchange student. He returned to Valencia and enrolled in the Escuela
Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura, where he earned a degree in
architecture and took a post-graduate course in urbanism.
Calatrava decided to pursue post-graduate studies in civil engineering and
enrolled in 1975 at the ETH (Federal Institute of Technology) in Zurich. He
received his Ph.D. there in 1979. It was during this period that he met and
married his wife, who was a law student in Zurich.
After completing his studies, Calatrava took a position as an assistant at
the ETH and began to accept small engineering commissions, such as
designing the roof for a library or the balcony of a private residence. He
also began to enter competitions, believing this was his most likely way to
secure commissions. His first winning competition proposal, in 1983, was for
the design and construction of Stadelhofen Railway Station in Zurich, the
city in which he established his office.
Calatrava's early career was dedicated largely to bridges and train
stations, whose designs elevated the status of civil engineering projects to
new heights.
Calatrava is currently designing the future train station - World Trade
Center Transportation Hub - at the rebuilt World Trade Center in New
York City.
Calatrava's style has been heralded as bridging the division
between structural engineering and architecture. In the projects, he
continues a tradition of Spanish modernist engineering that includes Flix
Candela and Antonio Gaud. Nonetheless, his style is also very personal and

derives from numerous studies of the human body and the natural world.
You can see a building y know that it was made by Calatrava.
Calatrava is also a prolific sculptor and painter, claiming that the practice
of architecture combines all the arts into one. In 2003, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York City held an exhibition of his artistic work,
entitled "Santiago Calatrava: Sculpture Into Architecture." Exhibitions of
his work have also taken place in Germany, England, Spain, Italy and
elsewhere.

Notable works completed

19831984, Jakem Steel Warehouse, Munchwilen, Switzerland

19831985, Ernsting Warehouse, Coesfeld, Germany

19831988, Wohlen High School, Wohlen, Switzerland

19831990, Stadelhofen Railway Station,Zrich, Switzerland

19831989, Lucerne Station Hall,Lucerne, Switzerland

19841987, Bac de Roda Bridge,Barcelona, Spain

19841988, Barenmatte Community Center, Suhr, Switzerland,

19861987, Tabourettli Theater,Basel, Switzerland,

19871992, Allen Lambert Galleria (in Brookfield Place),Toronto,

Canada,

19891994,TGV Station,Lyon, France

1992, Puente del Alamillo, Seville, Spain

1992,Puente de Lusitania, Mrida, Spain

1992,Montjuic Communications Tower at the Olympic

Ring, Barcelona, Spain

1992, World's Fair, Kuwaiti Pavilion, Seville, Spain

1994, Mimico Creek Bridge, Humber Bay Parks, Toronto, Ontario

1994, Oberbaumbrcke, Berlin, Germany (1896) rebuilt and opened

on November 9

19941997, Campo Volantin Footbridge, Bilbao, Spain

1995, Alameda Bridge and metro station,Valencia, Spain

1995, Trinity Bridge, footbridge over River Irwell, Salford, England

19962009, Ciutat de les Arts i les Cincies, Valencia, Spain

1996, Centro Internacional de Ferias y Congresos de Tenerife, Santa
Cruz de Tenerife (Santa Cruz de Tenerife (province), Tenerife,Canary
island, Spain)

1998, Gare do Oriente, Lisbon, Portugal

2000, New terminal at Bilbao Airport, Bilbao, Spain

2001, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. 2001,

Puente de la Mujer, in the Puerto Madero barrio of Buenos
Aires, Argentina
2001, Bodegas Ysios, Laguardia, Spain

2002, Wave, in Dallas, Texas at the Southern Methodist

University Meadows Museum[2]

2003, James Joyce Bridge, bridge over River Liffey, Dublin,

Ireland

2003, Auditorio de Tenerife, the architect's first performing arts

facility, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain

2004, redesign of Athens Olympic Sports Complex, Athens, Greece

2004, Sundial Bridge at Turtle Bay, Redding, California, USA

2004, Three bridges (called Harp, Cittern and Lute) spanning the
main canal of the Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands

2004, University of Zurich, "Bibliothekseinbau" library

remodelling, Zrich, Switzerland

Recognition

Calatrava has received numerous recognitions. In 1988, he was

awarded with the Fazlur Khan International Fellowship by the SOM
Foundation. In 1990, he received the "Mdaille dArgent de la
Recherche et de la Technique", Paris. In 1992 he received the
prestigious Gold Medal from the Institution of Structural Engineers. In
1993, the Museum of Modern Art in New York held a major exhibition
of his work called "Structure and Expression." In 1998 he was elected
to become a member of "Les Arts et Lettres", in Paris. In 2004, he
received the Gold Medal from the American Institute of
Architects (AIA).

In 2005, Calatrava was awarded the Eugene McDermott Award by

the Council for the Arts of MIT. The award is among the most
esteemed arts awards in the US.
He is also a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council.

Calatrava has a lots the buildings in all the world but I show to you the
ours city Valencia:

9 de Octubre Bridge

Alameda Bridge

Alameda Station Undeground.

Ciutat de les Arts i les Cincies, Museum Principe Felipe

Ciutat de les Arts i les Cincies, L Hemisferic

Ciutat de les Arts i les Cincies, L Umbracle.

Ciutat de les Arts i les Cincies, Assut de lOr Bridge.

Ciutat de les Arts i les Cincies, Agora

Ciutat de les Arts i les Cincies, Palau de les Arts.

Ciutat de les Arts i les Cincies, Monteolivete Bridge.